Overlap as Conversational Strategies in an American Daytime Talk Show “The View”
Abstract
The present study aims at figuring out the tendency of participants in employing overlap as conversational strategies by notably identifying the resources that herald overlap types along with its features occurring in an American daytime talk show named The View. The forty-eight minutes of the talk show aired on November 7, 2,019 was retrieved from the official ABC channel in the Youtube platform that has been videotaped. In analyzing and illustrating the data, the present study employed an approach of Conversation Analysis as an inductive-qualitative method. Data collected from hosts and guests’ utterances were transcribed and scrutinized to explore how overlaps are treated in the course of a talk show and parties’ strategies of turn holding and turn claiming. The findings revealed that parties in The View orient to use four types of overlap to deliver their perspective on issues being discussed. The classification of overlap types relied on the entailment of speaker change leading to whether it is intrusive or collaborative. Backchannels as a collaborative overlap were used as a high number of overlaps, followed by complementary types, anticipated turn-taking, and intrusive overlap of turn-request as the lowest number of overlaps. In designing the turn, parties tended to use two strategies, namely direct and indirect.
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