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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis research studied the interruption and overlap in the reality show
?The Apprentice-First Season? as well as each reason of interruption and overlap
and also the reason that might occur most frequently. The writer was interested in
observing the reality show because it was a new kind of entertainment program
which showed the competition among those who came from various business
environment to win as the apprentice. This reality show was divided into two
kinds of situation, that is, informal and formal. The writer tried to investigate the
interruption and overlap that occurred in the conversation of the show based on
each situation. The main theories were from Zimmerman and West (1975),
Wardhaugh (1985), and Tannen (1990). This research was a descriptive
qualitative research. The writer got the data from the utterances from 10 episodes
of the show that she transcribed herself. From her analysis, she found that the
candidates and other parties in the show tended to interrupt others rather than to
overlap them. Moreover, she found the same reasons of interruption and overlap,
such as seeking clarification, correcting, rejecting, completing, showing
annoyance and urgency. There were several reasons that could not be included
into Wardhaugh?s theory and the writer decided to include them into other
reasons. The other reasons that occurred were giving suggestion, showing
agreement, and concluding. The most frequent reason of interruption among the
candidates in informal situation was completing while clarification was found
mostly in formal situation. While the reason of overlap that occurred most
frequently in formal situation was correcting, and in informal situation rejecting
was the most frequent one. The only reason that did not occur was asking for help.
Finally, the writer concluded that interruption happened because every party in the
show tried to dominate and control the topic of the conversation.