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Abstract
This research focuses on two major conversation analysis branches: turn-taking and Grice’s (1975) conversational maxims. The researcher’s interest is to analyze the violation of the maxims and the nature of turn-taking in the interviews of African presidents on BBC. On the other hand, the researcher investigates the application of two major turn-taking features (overlapping and interruption) in the same interviews. In the current study, the researcher chooses a descriptive qualitative and a quantitative research method. The descriptive qualitative research method is used because the researcher is the one who interprets the data and explains the answers to the research questions. The research findings reveal that the maxim of quantity is the most violated in all four interviews the researcher analyzed. However, the researcher discovers that interviewees violate the maxims for four major reasons: To avoid a question, to preserve their selfimage, to take advantage of the media platform and to show their capability and knowledge of the given subject. Furthermore, the researcher discovers that the interviewers and interviewees interrupt and overlap each other in the interviews for three major reasons: to change the topic, to control the conversation, to ask for specific
information or clarification and to give or ask for additional information.