COMMUNICATION STYLES USED BY MALE AND FEMALE TV TALK SHOW HOSTS

The aims of this study were to discover the communication styles used by male and female TV talk show hosts. The method of the tudy is descriptive qualitative by using documentary technique. The source of the data is the talks of the male and female TV talk show hosts. The TV talk shows chosen were those which discussed both political and social issues. There were four TV talk show hosts who were studied. Two of them represented the male TV talk show hosts and the other two represented the female ones. A video from each TV talk show host was chosen randomly and all of them were broadcasted in April 2015. The data were analyzed by using interactive model by Miles and Huberman (2014). This study has drawn these results: (1) both of the male and female TV talk show hosts used the three dominant communication styles, the Socratic, the Noble, and the Reflective communication styles while interviewing their guest stars, (2) both of the male and female TV talk show hosts used the male and female speech features, and (3) the male and female TV talk show hosts used the same communication styles because both the male and female hosts showed the men’s traits more frequently than the women’s while interviewing their guests.