The purpose of this research is to analyze the aspects mechanism in Oprah
Winfrey show between Oprah Winfrey and Michele Obama, which every
conversation contains of the aspects of conversation analysis (CA) to make
conversation flows well. In this case, the aims of this research are: (1) to describe the
aspect of conversation that found in the onterview between the presenter Oprah
Winfrey and The First Lady Michelle Obama., (2) to describe the elaborations of the
aspects.
The method of this research uses qualitative method. The research questions
will be answered in analytical description. The collected aspects mechanism are
picked up randomly then classified based on the same kind. The conversation aspects
mechanism are analyzed by using Brian Paltridge model (2000: 81) which occurs in
conversation between Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama.
The result of this research shows that there are thirty seven data collected
from random sampling, those collected data resulted five kinds of conversation
aspects. There are five aspects found in that conversation, they are: opening-closing,
turn taking, adjacency pairs, feedback, and repair.