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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelInterruptions is one of many speech acts which
often occur in the conversations. Many linguists
believe that there are various reasons for someone to
interrupt his or her interlocutors more. West for
instance, conducted a study on the factor which
influenced the used of more interruptions in doctor-patient
conversation. He found out that sex influenced
the conversations more than gender. This result
contradicts with the writer's personal experience in
student-lecturer conversations. In her observation, she
found that status is the one which influenced the use
of more interruptions in student-lecturer
conversations, because both female and male lecturer
interrupted their students more. Besides that also,
since the writer knows that interruption is difficult
to analyze, she then decided to make a study on
interruption. The writer conducted this study in order
to find out what factors indeed play a role in the use
of interruptions in the conversations of Indonesian
female and male doctor respondents with their patients,
whether it is sex, gender, or both of them.
In conducting this research, the writer used the
combination of qualitative and descriptive approach to
study the interruptions which occur in the
conversations of four Indonesian female doctor
respondents with their female and male patients, and
four Indonesian male doctor respondents with their
female and male patients. The data which collected by
using a tape recorder was in natural setting or
situation. The data then were analyzed based on West's
category of interruption in doctor-patient
conversations.
The findings of the study show that the inter-ruptions
which occured in Indonesian female and male
doctor respondents conversations were influenced by
status and sex. It was influenced by status because
both Indonesian female and male doctor respondents
interrupt their patients more. While it was also
influenced by sex, because compared to male doctor
respondents, female doctor respondents which considered
by Coates as talkative, interrupt their patients more
than male doctor respondents did.