Transcript

This is a conversation between friends in the common room during a free period. Sam brings the conversation with an interogative sentence asking the group 'you don't know what Brownstock is?'  This leads to the first adjacency pair right at the start of the conversation as Amy replies 'no'. To this reply, Sam continues the inform the group about the festival and gives examples of artists that perfrom there. During this Megan is playing a game on her phone and chooses to jump in between speech. As Sam tells the group where the festival is held, Megan interferes and asks Amy a question. Sam choices to ignore this and continue with what he was saying. Megan then jumps in again saying 'savage' - the use of this word is sociolect, informal language is used to express her agitation over the game she is playing. Amy replies to Megan and this is an adjacency pair. At this point, three people are trying to talk at the same time showing that the girls are seeing past the main conversation for a small moment.

There is a second pause to take in the information then an adjacency pair follows this as Jamie asks Sam a question and he replies. He says 'no' and takes a pause before finishing with 'it's about...' showing that he had to think about his answer. There is then a two second pause and Megan says 'oh for crying out loud' in reaction to her game. This is the use of colloquialism. Sam jumps in as Megan says 'crying' and asks another question. However, Jamie ignores this and interrupts half way through to talk to me about Sam's previous statement to him which is an adjacency pair as I replied to Jamie.

The conversation continues by me and Amy asking Sam questions to which he replies and this again results in adjacency pairs. Megan continues to interrupt as Sam replies to the second question and Amy replies to her - an adjacency pair. The conversation ends by Sam asking if we've heard of the artists on the line up for the festival, '(.) one sec (.) erm have you ever heard of sigma'. The use of the filler 'erm' demonstrates Sam's uncertainty. Amy and I create an adjacency pair by replying and this continues for four more artists until the conversation ends by Sam saying 'surely like garage no (.) okay erm'.

Sam in the most dominant in the conversation as he is asking the questions so is in power as he controls the topic. Everyone else replies to him and so does not threaten his power, however Megan proves to be the person who most commonly breaks the exchange structure rules. Overlaps are common in the conversation which portray eagerness to get involved however Megan is shown to be unengaged, mostly talking to herself. It is clear that Sam talks the most making fourteen utterances  followed by Amy making seven utterances and me and Megan both made six. Jamie talks the less making only two utterances and this demonstrates that he may be uninterested. Sam is confident and in control - he has male domination over us three other main speakers who are female.