AN ANALYSIS OF PAUSES, OVERLAPS, AND BACKCHANNELS IN THE ZATHURA MOVIE BY JON FAVREAU

Conversation is one way of communication that people can connect in social life, and media entertainment continuously presents spoken interaction including movie. Zathura is an American science fiction movie showing the adventure in outer space. Simultaneous speaking and silence between turn by at least two speakers as well as the response of the listener from the conversation by the family members in Zathura movie which can be such problem or even showing cooperation are easily found. Therefore, this research aims to identify pauses, overlaps, and backchannels spoken by the characters of Zathura movie. Descriptive qualitative is the proper method for its application. The data is obtained in the form of utterances, and its context is based on the dialogue by the characters. This research employs purposeful sampling in collecting the data. The primary instrument is from Zathura movie’s dialogue script by each character. The theory is taken from George Yule in the field of conversation analysis. This research reveals some results. The first is pause. Overall numbers of pause are 37. The most pause appeared is gap with 28 data, the second rank of pause is attributable silence with 8 times occurrence, and the last is lapse which appears 1 time. The second is overlap. Numbers of overlap in Zathura movie are 62 which the highest frequency is turn terminal with 29 data and the lowest is turn initial with only 13 times, mid turn appears 20 times. The last is backchannel. 39 of verbal backchannels are found. The biggest number of occurrence is acknowledgment which appears 21 times. The second highest frequency is change of activity token which occurs 12 times. Newsmaker is the next rank, occurring 5 times, and the last is continuer with only 1 occurrence