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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is done in order to find out topic shift in radio program
'Surabaya Round Up' SCFM. Such aim is broken into two main problems of
the study:
(1) Which topic boundary markers occur in the discussion in this radio program
(2) How do the subjects perform topic shift markers in the discussion. The
discourse theories used in solving these problems are : Brown and Yule, and
McCarthy theories on topic shift to analyze the data since this theory is
more elaborate and comprehensible. Other references are also used in order
to support the analysis.
In this study the researcher uses the qualitative approach. The
researcher at first collect all the data and then analyze them using the
theories the researcher has. Two conversations under two issues are collected
as the data. They are : "unemployment" and "Bali Declaration".
From the interpretation and conclusion of the analysis, it can be seen
that Discourse Markers are mostly used in identifying topic shift. The marking
of topic shift can be done by means of activities focusing on points in the
talk where speaker makes summaries and evaluation and on marker both
opening ones and closing ones or summarising a stretch of talk and reacting
to it with an evaluation.
The reason why the interviewee do topic shift in their conversation are
because, it Is the interviewer who initiates the change of topic or sometimes
because the -interviewee were telling too much, making a lot of conclusions,
emphasizes, and summarises in conversation, and giving a lot of contrastive
answer.