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ELEMENTS OF ORAL DISCOURSE EXAMPL ES ADJANCENCY PAIRS BACK-CHANNELLING 1 J : What do you think? (Question) L: I don’t like that parts of it are purple ( answer) 2 L: Who’s your wife? (Question) J: Alyssa Milano. ( answer) 3 L: Game room? That’s not a game room, Joe. That’s a spa. ( complaint ) J: Okay, for you and your wife, it can be a spa. But for me and my wife, it’s gonna be a game room. ( excuse/remedy) 1 L: I’m telling you, my gut instinct has served us very well. We have a new business because of it. I found our secretary on a subway platform because of it. And it is the reason why my boyfriend is a gorgeous jewish doctor. (announcing) J: He’s a nurse, Louis. Wyatt is a mennonite and a nurse. (Informing) 2 J: It’s too easy. ( affirming) L: Yeah!! (Confirming) 3 J: Eh, it’s no big deal.
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ELEMENTS OF ORAL DISCOURSE EXAMPLES
ADJANCENCY PAIRS
BACK-CHANNELLING
1
J : What do you think? (Question)
L: I don’t like that parts of it are purple(answer)
2
L: Who’s your wife? (Question)
J: Alyssa Milano. (answer)
3
L: Game room? That’s not a game room, Joe.
That’s a spa. (complaint )
J: Okay, for you and your wife, it can be a spa.
But for me and my wife, it’s gonna be a game
room. (excuse/remedy)
1
L: I’m telling you, my gut instinct has served us very well. We have a new business because of it. I found our secretary on a subway platform
because of it. And it is the reason why my boyfriend is a gorgeous jewish doctor.
(announcing)
J: He’s a nurse, Louis. Wyatt is a mennonite and a nurse.(Informing)
2
J: It’s too easy.( affirming)
L: Yeah!! (Confirming)
3
J: Eh, it’s no big deal.(Affirming)
L: Meaning…”Eh, it’s a huge deal”.(Insisting)
J: Oh, okay, okay, okay. Fine, fine..uh..I, uh, I think I have to break up with her.(confirming)
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Good example!
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
I think you have gotten the concept of back-channelling wrong: Back-channelling is a way of showing a speaker that you are following what they are saying and understand, often through interjections like I see, yes, OK and uhu.
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Adjacency pairs are supposed to be pairs of utterances. Aren’t you getting confused with speech acts?
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Adjacency pairs are supposed to be pairs of utterances!
CONNECTORS
ELLIPSIS
FALSE STARTS
1
J: Okay, for you and your wife, it can be a spa. But for me and my wife, it’s gonna be a game
room. (addition/contrast)
2
L: I’m telling you, my gut instinct has served us very well. We have a new business because of it. I found our secretary on a subway platform
because of it. And it is the reason why my boyfriend is a gorgeous jewish doctor.
(reason/addition)
3
R: And may I juts say, joke, joke, joke, gay, gay, gay, I will cut you. It’s your girlfriend on line
two. (addition)
1
J: Oh, okay, okay, okay. Fine, fine..uh..I, uh, I think I have to break up with her.(hesitation)
2
L: Wasn’t my first. (omission of the subject)
3
L: OH, my God. It’s so funny. I always feel like our work gets in the way of my drama… Well,
tell me… What happened? (asking)
1
J: So, last night, I picked her up after work… She’s been really stressed out lately because
the sotre is in trouble… and she has a lot riding on some buyer that’s coming by to see her
today.
2
L: Oh! I can’t belive what I’m hearing… This is crazy, you know how much I love Ali, I mean
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Same for this!
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
I don’t understand why this should be a false-start:In any language a "false start" is when you speak and then realize you said the wrong thing. Some examples might be:I...I mean, "We went to the store. (wrong number)She...er, "he" was late. (wrong sex)Sally...no, it was Mary who blushed. (wrong name/person)
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Only this is actually an example of ellipis.
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Ok. I understand the relation expressed by each connector, but where is the connector? Can you highlight it?
FILLERS
INCOMPLETE UTTERANCES
LEXICAL CHAIN
for God’s sake, I introduced the two of you.
1
J: Oh, okay, okay, okay. Fine, fine...uh...I, uh, I think I have to break up with her. (hesitation)
2
L: OH, my God. It’s so funny. I always feel like our work gets in the way of my drama… Well,
tell me… What happened?(asking)
3
L: Call her back? (claiming)
J: What? We have… We have to work to do.(excusing)
1
J: Look if you just allow us to think about our work for a little while longer… (Suggesting)
L: No. No, no, no, no, no. No, no. That’s your problem. You think too much. Sometimes you
just got to go with your gut. (Interrupting )
2
L: If this story isn’t about you or me the next 30 seconds, I’m going to eat my fist … No, no,
don’t…don’t…don’t. (advising)
(During the half they talked about a house and the second half about Joe’s
relationship issue)
1
Tacky Color, game room, spa, house.
2
Girlfriends, Ali, dating, break up with her, get married, kids.
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Good identification of lexical chains!
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 23/04/15,
This is an incomplete utterance.
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Is a hesitation the same as a filler? How is ‘asking’ and ‘claiming’ and ‘excusing’ related to fillers?
OVERLAPPING
PAUSES
REPETITIONS
1
J: Look if you just allow us to think about our work for a little while longer…
L: No. No, no, no, no, no. No, no. That’s your problem. You think too much. Sometimes you
just got to go with your gut. ( Interrupting)
2
J: It’s just, you know, it’s just…
L: Hey, okay, okay, okay, okay. What is your gut telling you? (Interrupting)
1
L: OH, my God. It’s so funny. I always feel like our work gets in the way of my drama… Well,
tell me… What happened?
2
J: So, last night, I picked her up after work… She’s been really stressed out lately because
the sotre is in trouble… and she has a lot riding on some buyer that’s coming by to see her
today.
3
L: If this story isn’t about you or me the next 30 seconds, I’m going to eat my fist… No, no,
don’t…don’t…don’t.
1
L: It reminds me of that house where we used to play Nintendo when we were kids…
Remember?...Remember?.. . (asking ) It was that…what was that kid’s name? It was like Tim something, right? Tim something Irish .
(repetition)
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Ok. Nice!
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Where is the pause? You might want to indicate the pause by highlighting it, too.
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Ok. Very good!
SPEECH ACTS
VAGUE EXPRESSIONS
2
L: No. No, no, no, no, no. No, no. That’s your problem. You think too much. Sometimes you
just got to go with your gut. (repetition)
3
R: And may I just say, joke, joke, joke, gay, gay, gay, I will cut you. It’s your girlfriend on line
two. (repetition)
1
J: Ah, it’s nothing.(locution)
L: Meaning… “Ah, it’s something”. (perlocution)
J: Eh, it’s no big deal(locution)
L: Meaning…”Eh, it’s a huge deal”.(perlocution)
2
L: If this story isn’t about you or me the next 30 seconds, I’m going to eat my fist… No, no,
don’t…don’t…don’t. (locution)
1
L: It reminds me of that house where we used to play Nintendo when we were kids…
Remember?...Remember?... (asking ) It was that…what was that kid’s name? It was like Tim something, right? Tim something Irish.
(When we don’t know the name of something or someone)
2
J: Ah, it’s nothing.
L: Meaning… “Ah, it’s something”.
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Ok. We generally use vague language when we don’t know the name of something, or to make things sound less factual, or to talk about groups and categories: There were about twenty people at the meeting.It’s kind of cold in here.Did you see lions and giraffes and that kind of thing when you were in South Africa?
LUIS ALBERTO ROSIQUE MARTINEZ, 04/23/15,
Ok. If you are introducing these terms: locution, ilocution and perlocution, can you be more specific why one should be locution, why the other perlocution…?
