Types and Functions of Fillers Used by Indonesian Celebrities in Seleb English Youtube Videos

When an individual is conversing with a friend or
others, attending a lecture, or listening to a public speech, he or
she is likely to hear some types of filler. This is used as a strategy
to improve credibility which includes slowing down, pausing to
collect thoughts, or enhancing preparation beforehand.
Descriptive qualitative method was implemented in this research.
The objective study is to answer the research question: what
types and functions of fillers are used by Indonesian celebrities in
Seleb English youtube videos. The researchers applied Rose’s
theory in investigating the types of fillers and the theory by
Stenström to analyze the functions of fillers. The data were
taken from youtube videos of Sacha Stevenson in Seleb English
section. The finding of the research revealed that from the total
number of each type of fillers, the most frequently used were uh
for 12 times (32.44%), followed by like in the second position for
8 times appeared (21.62%). Then, filler emm in the third position
with the number of occurrences 6 (16.22%). On another hand,
the most frequent filler functions as filling pause with the number
of occurrences 25. Some Indonesian celebrities are fluent in
English because they were born in mixed marriage, experienced
leaving in overseas, or even had been in a great quality of schools
that affects the fluency of speaking English that runs the
conversation by using fillers smoothly.