Conversation Analysis in Discourse Analysis | Lecture: 20 | Linguistics-II

Conversation Analysis in Discourse Analysis is a topic in the subject of Linguistics part-II for the students of BS and MA Linguistics.

Conversation Analysis
In simple terms, English conversation can be described as an activity in which, for the most part, two or more people take turns at speaking.
For Example:
Sara: Didn’t you [ know wh
John: [ But he must’ve been there by two
Sara: Yes but you knew where he was going?

(A small square bracket [ is conventionally used to indicate a place where simultaneous or overlapping speech occurs.)


Turn Taking
Typically, only one person speaks at a time and there tends to be an avoidance of silence between speaking turns. If more than one participant tries to talk at the same time, one of them usually stops.

Pauses
The pauses (marked by …) are placed before and after verbs rather than at the end of sentences , making it difficult to get a clear sense of what this person is saying until we hear the part after each pause.
For Example:
A: that’s their favorite restaurant because they … enjoy French food and when they were … in France they couldn’t believe it that … you know that they had … that they had had better meals back home


Filled Pauses
In the next example, speaker X produces filled pauses (with em, er, you know) after having almost lost the turn at his first brief hesitation.
X: well that film really was … [ wasn’t what he was good at
Y: [ when di-

X: I mean his other … em his later films were much more … er really more in the romantic style and that was more what what he was … you know … em best at doingY: so when did he make that one
The contents for the Channel are as follows:
1. Basic grammar for Beginners
2. Linguistics (English)
3. Literature (English)
4. Intermediate level English Lectures
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