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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis delves into the interruptions and verbosity happening in
listeners' conversations on a radio station, Suara Surabaya 100.55FM based on
sex and social status differences. There are three questions the writer wants to
answer. First, who interrupts more in giving the information, the males or the
females? Second, who interrupts more in giving the information, the higher-status
persons or the lower-status persons? Third, who are more verbose in giving the
information, the males or the females?
The writer takes forty listeners to conduct this study. There are twenty
male listeners (ten of whom have a higher social status and the other ten have a
lower social status) and twenty female listeners with the same division as the male
listeners. Those forty listeners participate in Kelana Kota, an interactive program
on Suara Surabaya 100.55FM which occurs every day from 6.30am to 9.00am, by
informing the situation they have seen such as accidents, traffic jams, and robbery.
The writer begins to collect the data in October until December 1999. From all the
recorded conversations, the writer identifies the interruptions and verbosity, and
enumerates the occurrence of interruptions and the words the listeners use.
The research finds that the male listeners contribute 80 percent, while the
female listeners contribute only 20 percent of the interruptions. It means that the
male listeners make more interruptions than the females. In verbosity, the male
listeners contribute 57 percent and the female listeners contribute 43 percent.
Again, it means that the male listeners use more words than the females. Thus, sex
determines the number of interruption and verbosity. In interruptions, the male
listeners of higher social status contribute 49 percent and the female listeners of
higher social status contribute 12 percent. While from lower social status, the
male listeners contribute 31 percent and the females 8 percent. Thus, the males of
the higher social status make more interruptions. In verbosity, the male listeners
of higher social status contribute 36 percent and the females contribute 21 percent,
while the males of lower social status contribute 21 percent and the females of
lower social status contribute 22 percent. Therefore, this study shows the reverse
of the stereotypes except for the males make more interruptions than the females
which is more confirming. Thus, both sex and social status have influenced the
making of interruptions as well as in verbosity.