Backchannel Response in American Court of Law as Shown in Caught in Providence TV Show

Sapira, Tentri Hari (2024) Backchannel Response in American Court of Law as Shown in Caught in Providence TV Show. S1 thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This research examines the types of backchannel response and its function in the conversation between judge and defendant in a courtroom. The aim of this research is to identify the phenomenon of the use of backchannel response and how is it performed in a conversation. The data of this research is taken from the courtroom conversation which taken from videos Caught in Providence. There are 10 videos that have been analyzed in this research. The chosen videos then are transcribed into text form. This research is analyzed using qualitative methods. This research applied the conversation analysis that focus on the theory of backchannel response by Sungkaman (2006). Furthermore, the researcher uses tables for the research instrument. The result of analysis in this research is there are six types of backchannel response found in the conversation between judge and defendant. The types of backchannel that have been found are Short Verbalization (60 data), Repetition (22 data), Lexical Item (32 data), Phrase (5 data), Short Question and Answer (2 data), and Sentence (5 data). From all the backchannel types, Short Verbalization is the most response used in the videos. Meanwhile, it found that there are four functions of backchannel response in the Caught in Providence conversation. They are backchannel as ‘continuer’, backchannel as ‘captured interest token’, backchannel as ‘consonance token’, and backchannel as ‘information confirmation token’. In this research, backchannel as ‘information confirmation token’ is the most frequently used function and has the highest occurrence.

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