A conversation is an interactive exchange of thoughts, ideas, information, or emotions between two or more individuals. It involves a back-and-forth communication process where participants share spoken or written messages with the intention of conveying meaning, understanding each other, and potentially reaching a mutual agreement or conclusion. Effective conversations often require active listening, thoughtful responses, and the ability to adapt to the flow of the discussion. One of the responses in a conversation is by making backchannel. This research was aimed to know the different functions of backchannel that are commonly appeared in a daily conversation. Context of the situation plays big role in determining the functions of backchannel in the conversations. This research was done by describing and analysing the different functions in the conversations. The result shows that the participants mostly use uh-huh, yeah, yes, yeah all right, and no. The used backchannel shown in the data are function as continuer, understanding, support and empathy, agreement, emotive, and minor addition or request for information.

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