| Summary: | This study entitled Conversation Analysis of Interview between Oprah
Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama in The Oprah Winfrey Show.
There are three objectives in this study, firstly, to describe the structure of a
conversation between Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama in
The Oprah Winfrey Show (TOWS). Second, to describe the flouting of
cooperative principle and its implicature by Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and
Michelle Obama. Third, to describe phenomena that appear in the conversation as
the influence of participants� socio-cultural.
The data in this study were obtained by making the transcription of
utterances in conversation. To obtain a complete record of conversations,
recording techniques were also used. Therefore, the data in this study consists of
taped conversations and transcription of conversations that occur naturally in
TOWS. By using the recording and the transcription, it will be analyzed not only
in terms of conversation structure, but also other things that is the socio-cultural
affect related to the utterances.
It was found a few things related to the structure of conversation,
implicature of maxims violations, and socio-cultural dimensions. First, opening
and closing sequence were found more than one. This is a consequence of the
commercial breaks during the conversation and it becomes the uniqueness of the
conversation that was aired on television. Second, the overlap in conversations
that involving more than two participants can be minimized by the topics. Third,
the implicatures are not only found in the form of politeness and humor, but also
in form of explanation, refine utterances to the interlocutors, denial and doing
satire to the third party. Fourth, the conversation cannot be separated from social
and cultural influences, including the view toward compliment. It was found that
Americans use compliment as a means to please someone, so anyone can give it
to others regardless of social status.
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