Analysis of Transcript

Phatic talk- ‘small talk’ - social gel, just something to talk about; conversation starter- "So where d'you'll live?"

Adjacency pairs- follows an expected pattern, e.g. question and answer. This is an example of conversation turn taking- "So where d'you'll live?" "I live like upper Knowle/Bris (.) yeah."

Elision- missing letters in words, slang- "D'ya know mangotsfield?"

 Pauses- Slight pause in  conversation, after which she adds more on to what she was saying in attempt to keep the conversation flowing- "I do, I do, my (.) um yeah my grandpa (.) his home (.) is there."

 Chaining- The topics spoken about all link, the conversation flows/makes sense- "Yeah (.) it’s like near Emersons Green."

 Quantity- Some parts of the conversation, some of the participants may be saying too little. Meaning that then it’s harder to maintain a flow in the conversation- "Ohhh"

 

Non-fluency features- false starts, hesitation; shows uncertainty/lack of confidence- "I do, I do, my (.) um yeah my grandpa (.) his home (.) is there."

 

Interruptions and overlaps- two speakers speak over each other, showing maybe a sense of close relationship- " [It’s so weird                            ]"
                       " [It’s been since like February]"

 

Discourse marker- changing the subject of conversation- "Did you go to the same school?"

 

Back channelling- reassurance that they’re listening; shows maybe a women speaker-

"[yeah]"

"[yeah we did]"

 

Deixis- requires looking at the person you’re speaking to- "Oh cool (2) What school did you go to?"

 

Voiced pauses- vague language, shows a sense of uncertainty- "like MANGOTSFIELD"

 

Paralinguistic features- this speaker changes their tone of voice for comedy purposes/ to entertain the other speakers- "It sounds so horrible to say (.) like MANGOTSFIELD (puts on a voice)"

 

Overlaps- This overlap is because they were both thinking the same thing. It’s not an interruption as they both started speaking at the same time- " It reminds me of like [maggots]"

                                                                                                               "[maggots]"

 

Relevance- All the way through the conversation everything that was said from every participant was relevant; none of anything said was out of the blue.

 

Non- standard grammar-  Throughout things are said that aren’t grammatically correct.