AN ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE MARKERS USED BY PANELISTS AT THE PANEL DISCUSSION IN THE OXFORD UNION YOUTUBE CHANNEL

This research concerns in Discourse markers usage based on theory of Biber et al.s’ classific ati on (1999) for types of Discourse markers, and Brintons’ theory (1996) in functions of markers. This research was designed as a discourse analysis study. The aim of this research was to find the dominant types and their function usage by the panelists at the panel discussion in the oxford union youtube channel. There were 3 panelists of this research. In this research, the researcher identified the markers from each panelists by using List of Discourse markers. The results of this study showed that the panelists used discourse markers in their speech. From ten type of classification, the panelists only used eight type of discourse markers, that are linking adverbial, stance adverbial, vocatives, response elicitor, response form, hesitators, various polite speech-act formulae, and expletives and two types were not found, which were Interjection and Greeting and Farewell. In this research the researcher found seventy eight percents of the Dicourse Markers used by panelists belongs to Hesitators and Stance Adverbia. the researcher also found that the dominant types marker have difference functions, such as to express response, to take or give turn that guide the interpretation process of the hearer towards desire meaning, to express speaker attitude, to express sharing, filler or delaying tactic, express the attentiveness and strong emotional involvement, and coordinate the assumption between what had been said and what will they say, ( Schiffrin; 1987, 2006; Blakemore, 2006;Brinton:1996). The researcher sure that this study can give contributions for the Discourse markers information to the reader especially for the students of English Department Study Program of Universitas Bengkulu