TURN TAKING IN TUESDAY LIVE AND CONVERSATIONS TALK SHOWS OF THE NIGERIAN TELEVISION AUTHORITY (NTA)

Ijeoma Chioma Okafor

Abstract


This  study  examines  the  use  of  turn  taking  in  television  talk  shows  aired  by  the  Nigerian Television  Authority  (NTA).  The  study  strove  to  discover  the  underlying  norms  and  practices that  make  interaction  the  orderly  thing  that  it  is.  It  sought  to  discover  how  participants understand  and  respond  to  one  another  in  their  turns  at  talk.  The  theory  of  conversational analysis as propounded by Harvey Sacks in collaboration with Emmanuel A Schegloff and Gail Jefferson was adopted for this research. Using the purposive/judgmental sampling technique, two programmes  aired  by  the  NTA  were  selected.  The  programmes  include:  Tuesday  Live  and Conversations. The simple random sampling technique was used to select one episode from each of the programmes. The hosts and the participants in these episodes constitute the population of the  study.  The  study  therefore  concludes  that  some  NTA  talk  show  programmes  are  not  well structured  and  organized  and  the  rule  of  turn  taking is  not  adequately  applied  in  some  of  the shows.

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