Identifying the Speech Errors in a Talkshow From a Podcast: A Case on Speech Disfluency

This study used a psycholinguistic approach and concentrated on speech disfluency in an Ellen Degeneres podcast. The goal of this study was to identify the most prevalent type of speech disfluency used in the Ellen Degeneres podcast by analyzing different types of speech disfluency. Because the data were gathered from documents, the research method was descriptive qualitative research with content analysis. The researchers chooses Podcast to air on July 3, 2021 with a duration of 31 minutes 45 seconds. The theory of speech disfluency by Clark and Clark (1977) was used to analyze the speech disfluency. The analysis revealed 77 speech inflections in Ellen Degeneres' Talk Show, including- Silent pauses (1%) and filled pauses (35%) as well as repetitions (10%), false starts (1%) and false starts (retraced) (0%), corrections (14%) and stutters (6%). Ellen Degeneres' filled pauses were the most prevalent type of speech disfluency in "Ellen Degeneres Explains Why She's Ending Her Show". Filled pauses used by speaker in "Ellen Degeneres Explains Why She’s Ending Her Show" to occurs because there is a pause to continue the words that will be spoken carefully. So, the conversation become run well. In conclusion, with this research we must occurs because there is a pause to continue the words that will be spoken carefully.