Transcript and analysis

Transcript

A: Ok, so what you studying?

B: Law, psychology and English, how bout you?

A: I’m studying, I was spose to study psychology but I got a D.

B: In what GCSE?

A: Hm, so I got to study Sociology now and I’m doing Health and Social Care, English Language and GCSE Maths, so what you studying?

C: Photography, Media and English Language

A: What do you actually do in Media Studies cause I don’t really understand?

C: Um, like plan out films and make horror trailers and then edit it

B: I done that in year 11

A: No way, so what about you?

D: Travel and Tourism, Economics and English Language

1.     Filled pauses are used in this transcript such as ‘Hm’ and ‘Um’ this is due to hesitation as they were unsure what to say next.

2.     The noun ‘done’ in this transcript is incorrect as it should be ‘did’ but it’s an informal conversation, this is the same for the lexis ‘spose’.

3.     The transcript has adjacency pairs meaning that the conversation follows an expected pattern, with preferred responses.

4.     The lexis ‘cause’ is informal vocabulary as its been shortened from ‘because’ this is because it was spoken language not written.

5.     Fillers are also used ‘Like’.

6.     This conversation shows an example of chaining.

7.     There are a multiple number of interrogatives.

8.     There is clear field specific lexis subject in relation to college subjects.

9.     In the text there is a hypernym of the word ‘study’ and the verb ‘studying’.

10.           The hypernyms which stem off of this are words such as psychology, economics and maths.