SLIP OF TONGUE PRODUCE BY DEBATERS IN "INTELLIGENCE-HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE" EPISODE 5

Abstract

Anyone who is communicating with another person may unintentionally make a slip of the
tongue, even in an academic environment like a debating tournament. There are many
factors that cause slip of the tongue during delivering an argument, especially in
psychological variables, including feeling under pressure or anxious. This study aims to
analyze debaters' slip of the tongue from episode 5 of the television show "IntelligenceHigh School Debate." Identifying the types of slip of tongue using the theories of Haley
(2001) and Fromkin (1973). This study also aims to determine the frequency of type slip of
tongue in the video debate tournament. This current study uses qualitative descriptive, and
documentary techniques also video recording documents as a tool in order to collect that
data. The final result showed that the debaters from the competition engaged in
haplologies, phoneme anticipation, phoneme preservation, phoneme deletion, affix
deletion, word blending, word exchange, morpheme exchange, word substitution, and
phrase blending. 36 data of information relating to slips of the tongue were discovered. 14
data points for word substitution, 5 for word blends, 4 for phoneme deletion, 3 for affix
deletion and misderivation, 2 for morpheme exchange and haplologies, and 1 for word
exchange, phrase blends, and phoneme anticipation. During the debate segment, word
substitution was frequently used by the debaters.