1. Rationale
Conversation analysis has made a major contribution to discussions of language and gender in recent years. As Butler says, conversation analysis is able to reveal a lot about how people “do gender”. In using the speech, men and women do not express based on their gender but rather using speech to reflect on their gender. As it is supported by West & Zimmerman that what is involved in doing gender as an ongoing activity embedded in everyday interaction.
As University becomes the institution in which its personnel develop social relationship, interaction is one way of developing social construction. The interactional discussion related to the issue in university level done by college students as daily basis can be a field for us as researchers to further discover the observable, yet unnoticed features of gender-producing interactions and oppression of power.
The relevance of gender takes into account through the social construction as conversation analysis perspective allows the analysis to look at the view of language as a reflection of social reality to a view of the role of language in the construction of social reality, which in this case, is the matter of identity that both male and female construct through interaction.
2. Aims of the study
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They believe that interruption is means of social control, an exercise of power and dominance. Tannen (Gender and Discourse, 1994) studied and attempt to show that the process of interruption is not always certainly show as a dominance in the conversation. Sometimes interruptions are considered to be damaging to communication because it is done on a one-sided basis. However, some people believe that the interruption possibly providing encourage rather than