Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Transcript

Ricky and Vicky interview

I- Are we gunna see a geordie wedding this season?
V- no(.) we're not(.) I think(2)/
R-/you lost for words babe(.) is she feeling alright?(.) you feeling alright?
V- im not lost for words im just working out how to put it/
R- yeah OK!/
V- /shut up!
R- I cant believe this like
V- we dont have a wedding/
R-/its cus we're on camera this never happens/
V-/ no shut up!(.) we're having sorta like an engagement party(2) so its kinda like in the right direction for a wedding(.) but it's not a wedding(.) so we're moving towards a wedding[laughs](.)  but were still very far away from a wedding[laughs]stop putting so much pressure on us[laughs]
I- i cant think of anything worse than planing a wedding[inaudible]
V-I can't literally(.) i'm so dreading the point where i have to do something like that(.) in real life we're just said we're having an engagement party in where all our friends and all our family

in yellow- socialect, low level of formality
in Red- gives a reason for all the awkward two second pauses, gives an understanding of how people change when on camera (observers paradox)
"sorta like" not complying with relevance (grices maxims)
rhetorical questions used to imply humour




1 comment:

  1. Yes - you do need to take the mode/genre into account when analysing language, bot just treat this as a conversation. Good insight into how theory could be used to illuminate what is happening in this exchange.

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