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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study was a sociolinguistic study about interruption which was done
by the female host on Playboy Kabel reality show. The writer wanted to find out
the reason on why the female host did interruptions during the show. In addition,
he also wanted to find out the discourse markers used by the female host when she
did the interruptions. The source of data in this study was one episode of Playboy
Kabel broadcasted on February 16, 2008. The data of this study was the utterances
of the female host which contained interruptions during the show. The writer used
Wardhaugh?s (1985, p. 151-156) theory to find out the reasons of interruption and
Schiffrin?s (1987, p. 126-309) theory to find out discourse markers. The writer
recorded and wrote the conversations which occurred in the show. Through the
analysis, the writer found that the female host did the most interruptions and the
most frequent reason in doing her interruptions was seeking clarification. The
writer also found out that the female host likely to use discourse markers of
information management and markers of response such as ?o, oh, hah, yee, yes? to
do interruptions during the show. The writer also found that the female host used
interruptions mostly for seeking clarification.