Conversation Analysis in the Podcast Featuring Indah Gunawan and Cinta Laura

Abstract

Conversation is an essential component of everyday communication, acting as the main means of establishing social bonds and expressing meaning in a variety of communicative circumstances. In a conversation patterns and structures are crucial for structuring speech, directing responses, and maintaining a fluid communication flow during a conversation. The study focuses on identifying conversational patterns and structures that emerge throughout the interaction. The research employs the theory of Conversation Analysis (CA) by Jack Sidnell (2010) to analyze conversational patterns and the theory of interactional structure by Paul Ten Have (2007) to examine structural organization. The data were collected from the podcast featuring Indah Gunawan and Cinta Laura and analyzed using a qualitative descriptive method. The analysis categorized the conversational features into reference, repair, repetition, and adjacency pairs under conversational patterns, and turn-taking organization and sequence organization under structural interactional organization. The findings indicate that all identified conversational patterns appeared in the podcast, while only two structural interactional elements turn-taking organization and sequence organization were found, with turn-taking organization being the dominant structure. This study contributes to the field of discourse analysis by providing insights into how turn-taking mechanisms and conversational preferences shape interactions in podcast discussions.