Transcript Cami-Knickers Summary

Analysis on the Transcript ‘Cami-knickers’

The transcript ‘cami-knickers’ is a spoken interaction between J, her cousin, E, her friend, T, and her aunts, M and S at a wedding reception. This means that they are all related or have a close relationship with each over. Throughout the whole interaction they are all very comfortable around one another and use a lot of different spoken language features in it.
In the transcript J starts off the conversation by using a discourse marker. She starts with the word ‘So’. This could show that she is trying to take control of the conversation because she has something interesting to say. In this case she is trying to bring up a new topic and saying ‘so’ implies to other people that she has something new to say.
She say ‘so which which’ and then goes on to finish her sentence. This could represent her think what she is going to say. She might have thought of what she was going to say then just before she says it realizes that it doesn’t sound right so has to think of another way to say it. This sometimes makes the speaker have no more control but in this case she clears it all up and carry’s on with the interaction.
J is also the most dominant in the transcript. She talks the most and also seems to be leading the conversation. This could be because she has a higher status than everybody else or that she just knows more about the topic they are talking about. It might also be because she is more confident than everybody else.
J also uses back channelling while E is taking. He uses the word ‘Yeah’. She could be using back channelling to show that he understands what E is talking about and so she knows to carry on talking. It might also show reassurance to E that he is listening to her and respects what she is