Interruptions in peaky blinders season 1

This study aims to investigate interruptions presented in Peaky Blinders Season 1. There are two research problems in this present study: (1) what are the types of interruptions uttered by the characters in Peaky Blinders 1; (2) what are the functions of interruption found in Peaky Blinders 1. In this study, the data is the utterances from the main characters: Arthur Shelby, Thomas Shelby, John Shelby, Ada Shelby, Polly Shelby, Grace Burgess, and Chester Campbell. This research utilized a descriptive qualitative method in regard to the phenomena that were presented in the form of text. The data were in the form of utterances uttered by the characters in the TV series. The researcher used codes to identify the types of interruption and the functions of interruption. The data collected, categorized, and interpreted to answer the research problem. The study's finding shows that all four types of interruptions could be found in six episodes of Peaky Blinder 1. Those are simple interruption, overlap interruption, butting-in interruption, and silent interruption. Out of the total of 44 types of interruptions found in the series, the most used types of interruptions are simple interruptions, followed by overlap interruption, butting-in interruption, and silent interruption sequentially. Furthermore, the researcher found three functions in the series: cooperative interruption, intrusive interruption, and neutral interruption. The most used function was intrusive, with floor-taking subcategories as the most dominant function, followed by topic change functions, disagreement functions, and tangentialization functions. Cooperative interruption was second most used with the most dominant subcategories assistance function, followed by agreement function, and clarification function; and the least used function was neutral function.