CONVERSATION ANALYSIS IN BRITISH VOGUE INTERVIEW WITH EMMA WATSON

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the aspects of conversational interaction and how those aspects are presented in the interview. In conducting this research, the writer applied a qualitative descriptive method to analyze the aspects of conversational interaction.In this study, the utterances uttred by the interviewer (Paris Lees) and interviewee (Emma Watson) serve as the data. The source of data for this study is a video of an interview in British Vogue, which was acquired from the official British Vogue YouTube channel. The interview was then transcribed into written text. The data are classified and analyzed using Paltridge's Conversation Analysis theory. Based on the theory of Paltridge, the writer discovered that all aspects of conversational interaction are employed by both the interviewer (Paris Lees) and interviewee (Emma Watson). They are opening and closing conversations, turn-taking, adjacency pairs, feedback, preference organization, and repair. The opening started with a greeting and for the closing, the interviewer ended by initiating a new topic. The turn changed by giving nominations is often used during the interview. Question-answer became the most commonly used type of adjacency pair. For preference organization, the preferred response is used by Emma Watson. Emma and the interviewer mostly used response tokens for feedback. Self-repair is the repair strategy used during the interview.