Transcript Analysis

The conversation that was written into transcript form was between my mum and dad and used various different techniques that all transcripts use. My mum begins all four conversations that i recorded and wrote about, she also talks the most within these conversations and asks most of the questions. This is because within these conversations at this time she has more power and seems to be in more of the dominant position. However, in this transcript they do use exchange structure as they both speak after each other and take turns, even though they interrupt each other a few times this shows they are eager to talk to one another. There are many times where adjacency pairs are used this is when questions are asked and are answered by the next speaker, in my transcript this was used many times and the questions where mainly asked by my mum and only once by my dad, this can show a lot about the way the relationship works or what kind of person they are. But there was also one adjacency pair which is called a flouting adjacency pair, it is called this because it is a question that doesn't get an answer an action is just done. In my transcript my mum asks my sister to get something from the kitchen, there is no reply from my sister you just know by the further conversation that she did what she was asked. Both of my parents but mainly my dad use fillers a lot when they are talking in a general conversation to someone they are comfortable and generally informal with. Many of his sentences begin with "erm" this is used when someone doesn't know what to say or could be thinking about what they are going to say before they say it. Neither of them tend to use swearing much in general conversation but my dad used it once during the transcript showing the general use of language and that he is comfortable talking that way with the other person in the conversation. All of these were used to show the relationship between the two speakers, what they are like in they way that they talk to one another in general conversation and what roles they take regarding on the one who takes more control in a conversation.