The Turn Taking Strategy Used by Prabowo and Jokowi in the Presidential Election Debate 2019

Syarifudin Yunus, Maguna Eliastuti

2019

Abstract

Conversational activities that occur between two or more people usually carried out alternately in conveying their thoughts. When someone speaks, the interlocutor will shut up and listen to the conversation. Turn taking is a condition where the speaker in question talks in turn. Debate Turn taking on Presidential Election 2019 is the object of this research which is focused on strategies of speech change and patterns or forms of speech changes, using qualitative descriptive methods. The Turn taking Srategy used by Prabowo and Jokowi in the Presidential Election 2019 which aired on Television is the data turn taking that can be analyzed. There were 149 data which analyzed by using conversation analysi. This study showed that there were three patterns of turn-taking that occurred consisting of 1) taking the turn 64% as an initiative to start the conversation, 2) holding the turn 15% as the initiative of the interlocutor who could not hold his turn to speak, and 3) yielding the turn 21% as an initiative to produce the impact of the conversation. It can be concluded, the strategy of turn taking in the presidential candidate debate shows the speakers' language skills, besides being able to influence voters based on the conversation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yunus S. and Eliastuti M. (2019). The Turn Taking Strategy Used by Prabowo and Jokowi in the Presidential Election Debate 2019.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS, ISBN 978-989-758-405-3, pages 460-467. DOI: 10.5220/0009001504600467

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icels19,
author={Syarifudin Yunus and Maguna Eliastuti},
title={The Turn Taking Strategy Used by Prabowo and Jokowi in the Presidential Election Debate 2019},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,},
year={2019},
pages={460-467},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009001504600467},
isbn={978-989-758-405-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,
TI - The Turn Taking Strategy Used by Prabowo and Jokowi in the Presidential Election Debate 2019
SN - 978-989-758-405-3
AU - Yunus S.
AU - Eliastuti M.
PY - 2019
SP - 460
EP - 467
DO - 10.5220/0009001504600467