Conversation Analysis on Interview with a Covid-19 Vaccine Expert Dr. Jerome Kim in Asian Boss Channel

Abstract

Conversation analysis is an approach for analyzing a conversation between two or more people. This analysis is needed to find what kind of aspects are applied during the occurence of the conversation. This study entitled “Conversation Analysis on Interview with a COVID-19 Vaccine Expert Dr. Jerome Kim in Asian Boss Channel” is aimed to analyze and describes the aspects of conversation analysis realized in the interview conversation. The researcher used qualitative descriptive as the analysis method based on the theory of Paltridge. Documentation method is applied in collecting the data. The data source that are used were taken from Youtube video of an interview with a vaccine expert as the interviewee. This study resulted that there are three aspects of the conversation analysis used by the interviewer (Stephen Park) such as adjacency pairs, turn-taking, and topic management, and repair. The most dominant aspect of Conversation Analysis found in the interview was the turn-taking aspect. Therefore, there were not found any opening or closing in the interview because the interviewer directly asked the interviewee about the main topic of the interview which is about vaccination without any introduction. These results makes the realization of the aspects use by the interviewer and interviewee are different.