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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is conducted in order to find out whether two different sessions in a
talk show that emphasize on different talks (transactional or interactional), can
influence the presenter?s choices of language functions or not. Here, the writer choose
Ellen DeGeneres, a well known presenter of day time talk show titled The Ellen
DeGeneres Show, as her subject research. In fact, she is regarded as one of the best
presenters nowadays. Definitely, in hosting the show, DeGeneres is dealing with
various functions in all sessions of the show, including the monologues and
interviews. Therefore, the writer wants to reveal what types of language functions
used by DeGeneres in hosting these two sessions. The data were taken from 5
episodes of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Here, the writer used descriptive qualitative
approach. Moreover, in analyzing the data, she applied the theory of language
functions proposed by Finocchiaro-Brumfit (1983). The result reveals that all types of
language functions which are referential (55.33%), personal (20.81%), directive
(9.14%), interpersonal (8.63%) and imaginative (6.09%) occurred in the monologues,
while there are only four functions found in the interview sessions. The four functions
are interpersonal (31.71%), referential (30.73%), personal (21.95%) and directive
(15.61%) functions. Poetic does not occur in the interview sessions. Probably, this
condition could happen because of the different type of communication that the
presenter applies in hosting these two sessions. In the monologue sessions, DeGeneres
deals with one-way communication that makes her more freely in using various
functions in order to deliver the information. On contrary, while in hosting the
interview sessions, she deals with two-way communication. Moreover, the dominant
type of talk used in each session also affects to the most frequent function occured. In
hosting the monologues that deal with transactional talks, the presenter emphasizes
the using of referential function (55.33%), whereas in the interviews that deal with the
interactional talks, the presenter uses the interpersonal function more than other
functions. Lastly, the writer also finds out that the presenter?s expressive personality
inevitably influences the choices of functions used by the presenter. It is proven by
the constant occurrence of personal function (approximately 20%-21%) in presenter?s
utterances in hosting both sessions.