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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study deals with interruption, after several thoughts the writer also put the
utterance that have connection with interruption that was still focuses on interruption.
This study analyzed the interruption that occurred in the "KISS" infotainment which
hosted by Dave Hendrik and Novita Angie. Throughout this research, the writer intended
to know who interrupts more in a conversation, a male, a female or a guest presenter and
what the reasons of the interruption were. The writer also wanted to know the overlaps in
the conversation. In order to answer the questions in the statement of the problem, the
writer refers to some theories that are; Gender (Lips, 1988;3), and Interruption (Tannen).
Descriptive study was used in this study since it described the Linguistics phenomena in
interruption. Moreover, it also applied a limited quantitative in order to know the number
of occurrence in interruption. The data were obtained by recording the KISS
infotainment. The finding shows that the female controls or led the interruptions. The
second finding shows that trying to complete was one of the most frequent reason used in
interruption. Finally from the last finding about the domination of interruption that the
presenters used, the writer found that the female presenter dominated the interruption
although the male presenter dominated the conversation.