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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelInfotainment is a program which gives information based on the real life
of celebrities such as actors, singers and public figures.There are many kinds of
infotainment in television, one of them is packed in form of live talk or talk show.
In talk show, there are hosts, guests and audience who present and involve in the
conversation. The hosts have important rules since they have many things to ask
to the guests, as a result there are many questioning sections found in the
conversation. In this study, the writer discusses about language functions which
are produced by the hosts in the questioning sections. The writer uses theory of
Language Functions, proposed by van Ek and Alexander (1976), which have
already been reviewed in Hatch (1985). As questions relate to topics, the writer
also uses topics as supporting theory to divide the questioning sections into
fragments, in order to make them easier to analyze. The data of this research is
"Campur Campur" talk show in ANTV. The writer was interested in the hosts?
ways while the hosts were questioning the guest. After doing the analysis, the
writer found six parts of the language functions that occur in hosts? utterances but
language functions that mostly occur in hosts? uterances in the questioning
sections are Imparting / Seeking Factual Information with categories Ask and
Report, and Express / Discover Intellectual with categories Discover Agree and
Discover Consider X Logical. Then, the writer concludes that the hosts produce
more that one langugae functions in having conversation with guest, which
sometimes the form and the function are the same or different