Bugis Makassar community, Siri' na Pacce culture, is a robust culture for the life of the Bugis-Makassar people and is an identity and character for the Bugis-Makassar people. The problems felt by partners are a lack of understanding and interest in local wisdom Siri' na Pacce tribal Bugis Makassar in entrepreneurship to improve the family economy. To assist and build awareness through education and training to participants about the importance of knowledge of Siri' na Pacce local wisdom of the Bugis Makassar tribe in entrepreneurship. The activities carried out are Preparation, implementation, evaluation, report generation and implementation evaluation. After examining some of the value elements contained in Siri' na Pacce culture in improving the economy of mothers in the Tamalanrea sub-district of Makassar City, it can be concluded that in improving the economy of homemakers, they must better understand and increase knowledge and application of Siri' na Pacce culture value.

This study aims at examining the turn-taking strategies performed by male presenter, Jimmy Kimmel, and female presenter, Ellen DeGeneres, in two American TV talk shows. The data were analyzed using Stenstrom theory (1994) for the turn-taking strategies performed by both presenters. The findings revealed the following. (1) As the representation of male presenters, in conversation with male guests, Jimmy performed most of the strategies such as hesitant start, clean start, uptakes, links, alert, filled pause/ verbal fillers, silent pause, lexical repetition, a new start prompting and appealing. However, he did not apply metacomment and giving up strategy. Furthermore, in conversation with female guests, he used all the strategies, except hesitant start, metacomment, lexical repetition, a new start, and giving up strategy. (2) As the representation of female presenters, Ellen did not use metacomment, silent pause, and giving up strategies in her conversation with male guests. On the other hand, in conversation with female guests, she used all the strategies, except metacomment strategy. (3) This study also revealed that male presenters interrupted more often to female guests than to male guests, which supports the theory proposed by Zimmerman and West (1975).

Interruptions in conversation are considered as a form of domination. Several prominent studies concluded that male tend to dominate the conversation by interrupting more often than female in mixed-sex conversation. However, interruption found to have other functions, which used to show a positive attitude. Therefore, this present study employed a descriptive qualitative method to investigate the function of interruption by male and female presenters in comedy talk shows in Indonesia using the classification of interruption by Zhao (2003) and Tao (2018). The findings pointed out that interruptions are not only aimed as a form of domination but also function as the form of cooperative and intrusive way in conversation. Related to gender study, female presenters are likely to use cooperative interruption while male presenters dominantly use intrusive interruption. Moreover, this study also revealed that intrusive interruption performed not only to show disagreement towards interlocutors but also may cause laughter that shows positivity from the audiences Abstrak   Interupsi dalam percakapan dinilai sebagai sebuah bentuk dominansi. Beberapa studi terkemuka menyimpulkan bahwa laki-laki cenderung mendominasi dalam percakapan antara lawan jenis dengan menginterupsi lebih banyak dibanding perempuan. Akan tetapi, interupsi ditemukan memiliki tujuan lain yang bersifat positif. Oleh karenanya, penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang bertujuan untuk melihat tujuan interupsi yang dilakukan oleh pembawa acara laki-laki dan perempuan dalam talk show komedi di Indonesia menggunakan klasifikasi interupsi oleh Zhao (2003) dan Tao (2018). Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa interupsi tidak hanya berfungsi sebagai bentuk dominansi tetapi juga dapat menunjukkan bentuk kooperatif dan intrusif dalam percakapan. Terkait dengan studi gender, pembawa acara perempuan cenderung menggunakan interupsi kooperatif sedangkan pembawa acara laki-laki secara dominan menggunakan interupsi intrusif. Selain itu, ditemukan bahwa interupsi intrusif tidak hanya menunjukkan bentuk pertentangan terhadap lawan bicara namun juga dapat menyebabkan tawa yang bersifat positif dari penonton.