http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/occupation.htm
Occupations are an important feature of society. Any analysis of how society works is likely to consider occupations - these are a very common feature of social organization, more or less universal in economically developed societies and throughout recorded history. Occupations could not really exist without language, especially those in which many people work together, and need to pass on information about how to do things, or about current tasks.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Transcript
A: Right, B.. Where did you go on holiday?
B: Umm.. I’d say LA, cus there’s a lot of things to do and um.. you know you have
broad.. broadwalk and.. all the.. all the attrac-
C: It’s not.. it’s the boardwalk?
B: Boardwalk..?
C: Broadwalk is in Knowle, where I live..?
(Pause)
*Laughter*
A: Alright yeah anyway..
C: Sorry carry on!
A: Same thing really..?
D: What about you, A?
A: Crete. Because it’s lovely and hot and uh.. it’s really Greek and I like Greek..
people.. uh and I like Greece in general.
B: Do they speak English there, like.. really well or..?
A: Yeah they do actually. They do speak English pretty well.
C: Europeans do though don’t they?
A: Yeah
B: No because I have.. there's um.. I know someone from.. Denmark.. that speaks
English.. like exactly how an American, but... they speak Danish as well.. it's
kinda weird!
A: D what about you?
D: I'd probably go to Miami.. cus it's just hot, and nice
A: I love America
C: Yeah .. I haven't been but I really want to go.. I go to Cornwall
B: Cornwall?
C: Have you actually been to Cornwall?
B: No.. where would you wanna go, apart from Cornwall?
C: I don't know actually.. America really.
D: Where in America?
C: Anywhere really... I haven't been-
B: Yeah but what's your ideal place?-
C: I don't know! I haven't researched into it.
Transcript Analysis
- Speaker B frequently pauses during their speech, so uses fillers like, "um" and "like" to fill these gaps in speech to avoid a longer pause.
- The pause in-between lines 6 and 7 suggests that all speakers that all speakers are acknowledging what speaker C had just said.
- The connotation *Laughter* after this pause shows that the speakers found this statement funny, however it could also be due to the speakers supporting another speaker, by making them feel humorous and included in the conversation.
- Some forms of non-standard English are used like, "cus", "wanna", "yeah" and "kinda", this represents the relationship between the speakers, as the register here is clearly informal.
- The transcript is a chain of adjacency pair, as the topics flow as expected because they are linked.
- Speaker A uses the filler, "uh" more than once when they speak for the second time, suggestive of a thought process during their speech.
- Speaker C spoke more frequently than the other speakers, but their speech is often brief and short, this could show that the speaker may feel that the conversation is unnatural, due to their lesser quantity in speech.
- Speaker D speaks the least amount in this transcript, but their speech appears to bethe most forma, with the exception of the use of, "cus", showing that they may not feel as comfortable or as casual as some of the other speakers do.
- With the common use of the question mark, it is acceptable to suggest that the intonation at the end of the utterances that use tis punctuation is rising.
- The common use of phatic talk here suggests that the speakers have fairly new relationships with each other, hence the relatively polite conversation being made here
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