Age-Based Investigation of Disruptive Interruption in TV Shows

People communicate effectively and continuously in daily life, and this
communication process occurs between two speakers or more. Therefore, these speakers
must be aware of interaction rules since it is the essential aspects of society. Usually,
when someone is speaking, the listener should be listening not to break down
communication rules. The listener can take a turn and start speaking when the main
speaker finishes his speech and allow him/ her to speak, and this is called turn-taking. On
the contrary, if the listener starts speaking before the main speaker finishes his/her
speech, he/she violates the turn-taking rule. Generally, this is called the phenomenon of
interruption, which takes place when the violation of turn-taking rules occurs. In other
words, the listener interrupts the main speaker to take his/her turn speaking. Specifically,
disruptive interruption is one of the primary purposes of interruption when the listener
interrupts the speaker to show disagreement, change the topic, take the floor, or
tangentialize.
 

The current study seeks to examine disruptive interruption according to age in live
TV shows. These two factors are chosen as they are in terms of their compatibility with
the current study. However, to analyze disruptive interruption according to age, this study
adopts a model, uses descriptive qualitative method, and randomly selected two Englishlanguage-based live TV shows. Besides, this study selected five episodes for each TV
show to get accurate results and examine disruptive interruption appropriately. Each
episode was watched and listened to more than two times and then read the transcription
precisely. Finally, the findings of this study indicate that, according to age, mature people
use disruptive interruption more than other age classes.