Transcript Analysis

English Transcript Analysis

The conversation between my Mum, Dad and Sister starts with a female speaking. This goes against the typical stereotype of men having more control and power than women and that older woman have more dominance. This also depends on when you started recording the conversation. In this conversation the man only speaks four times illustrating that he has less power and control over the situation. The first speaker uses a declarative sentence in order to inform by mum about what Apple had said to her. An interrogative sentence is used in order to state that someone is asking a question. The use of compound complex sentences implies that there is a detailed amount of information or that there is more than one clause and conjunction. The sentences such as ‘oh no so’, ‘oh right’ are simple as they only two or three words and it shows someone answering quickly. It then goes onto having an adjacency pairs when my mum asks questions and my sister answers them. This displays that my mum wants to get as much information as possible. A variety of pauses are used to show that the person is talking for a long time so this means that they need to breath or this could mean that they went to say one thing and say something else. Further on in the transcript an overlap is used which implies the person is eager to say something. Throughout the whole transcript my mum has the most utterances (11) this shows she is dominating the conversation as she wants to know lots of information and she is telling my dad what has happened aswell. My mum has relational power as she is the older person. Women usually make the conversation flow and men usually interrupt eachother. The use of elision is used by the words ‘gotta, tryna and cos’, this creates a sense of informality. This shows that they are just shortening the words to make it easier to understand and how they talk naturally. No swearing is used in this transcript; this could be because the conversation needs no swearing as it is the wrong concept and not an argument. The whole conversation is of a low register as it is a general conversation and its shows their family relationship so they don't need to use formal language.