CONVERSATION ANALYSIS OF TURN TAKING MECHANISM IN EVER AFTER MOVIE

Abstract

Conversation is a spoken exchange of  feelings, thoughts or ideas between two or more people. In order to get a smooth conversation, the participant should not violated each  other’s turn. Thus, The present study explained about turn-taking mechanism of conversation analysis in Ever After movie. The aim of this study is to find out what kind of turn taking mechanism occured in Ever After movie, the function of each mechanism and how the characters construct the conversation. this study required qualitative method and the data are collected using documentation. The instrument used are human instrument which means the researcher uses herself to interpret the data. The findings of this study indicate that the characters mostly used yielding the floor mechanism and backchannel signals to maintain the conversation which mean  of the conversation runs smothly. Thus, it is indicate that the characters did not violate their turn.

Keywords: turn-taking mechanism, ever after, conversation analysis, interruption