Conversation & The Art of Public Speaking

Question 1

What are adjacency pairs and give examples?

Answer 1

Adjacency pairs are exchanges between 2 speakers.
questions - answers 
offers - acceptances 
accusations - denials 
criticisms - justifications 
greetings - return greetings

Question 2

What are disprefered 2nd part answers and what do we do with them?

Answer 2

This is when the 2nd part exchange is not preferred by the 1st speaker. We tend to give longer delays (0.6) and we use utterances like ‘uggggh’

Question 3

Who wrote ‘Our Masters Voices’ and what did it look at?

Answer 3

Max Atkinson (1988) it looked at how politicians and public speakers use claptrap

Question 4

What techniques do we use in claptrap?

Answer 4

3 part lists - ‘ready, set, go!’
contrasts - following something bad with a good thing
catchy headlines
projecting a name using 3 steps: identify the person, say a few words about them, name them.