Visiting Paris Flashcards
State the text type.
Conversation / Spontaneous speech
What evidence is there of the text type? (2)
- Fillers ‘er’
- Overlapping: [loads}[yeah]]
- Self repair: ‘do you (.) what kind of tourists did you see there’
State the mode.
Spoken mode
What evidence is there of the mode?
- Fillers ‘er’
- Overlapping: [loads}[yeah]]
- Self repair: ‘do you (.) what kind of tourists did you see there’
State the relationship between and describe Mike and Sophia.
Mike and Sophia are both students and seem to have a relaxed relationship as can be seen by the use of colloquial language in the concrete nouns ‘blokes’ and ‘guys’ and elision in ‘yeah’ and ‘cause’.
How do Mike and Sophia address each other?
They directly address each other through the 2nd person in interrogatives such as ‘weren’t you saying the other other day…’ Backchannel (‘yeah’) and paralinguistic features such as laughter also highlight their relaxed, friendly relationship.
State and describe the purpose of the text.
Main purpose is to share memories. Tag question ‘so
many stairs isn’t there’ suggests they have shared similar experiences.
They both aim to share personal; opinions and use several evaluative adjectives such as ‘brilliant’ ‘rude’.
