PARTICIPANTS’S TURN-TAKING LANGUAGE BEHAVIOURS IN THE GOOD MORNING BRITAIN TELEVISION PROGRAM

This research is aimed at finding the rules of good conversation carried out by Alex and Piers Morgan on the Good Morning Britain television program starting from the ends of signal turns, turn allocation and Types of Turn Construction Unit. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The subject of this research is a video uploaded on YouTube of a very viral debate event about a black racism that aired on the Good Morning Britain television program. The results of this research data are taken from the results of observing conversations from existing video subjects and researchers. complete a transcript which will later be used to obtain data. Data were analyzed based on the theory of Sacks and Schegloff (1974). The first finding is the finding of turn allocation in conversations from participants using the words okay, right, by the way and others. The second finding is the end of signal turn where participants take over, overlapping, interruption and yielding the turn. The third finding is that of the four types of TCU there are a total of 22 data, 15 data of sentential turns, 2 data of lexical turns, 2 data of phrasal turns, and 3 data of clauseal turns. It can be concluded that conversations carried out by two or more people have rules, when to speak and when to be silent or take over the conversation. Keywords: Turn-Taking, Turn Construction Unit, Language Behaviours the Good Morning Britai