Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Job Conversation Transcript

A: have you got a job?
B: (laughs) no I don’t but I've applied for lots of places
A: where have you applied for?
B: um Argos (.) House of Fraser (.) [Debenhams]
A: [did you not have any replies?]
B: no (.) well the people either ignore me or tell me that I don’t (.) have the right thing for the job (2) that didn’t make sense but yeah (laughs) - this is slang because it is informal
A: have you got a job C?
C: I don’t have a job but I’ve applied for many places (.) like B I’ve applied for (.) House of Fraser (.) my recent one I got (.) told I can’t work at Lush because I pat my thighs - micro pauses between speech- non-standard grammar
All: (Laughs)
C: that’s a bad (.) thing to have apparently (2)
A: oh (.) fair enough
C: I know it's great
B: (laughs)
A: D have you got a job? - repetition of the same question which is relevant and stays on topic
D: no I don’t have a job because (.) nowhere gets back to me so I’m still looking
A: oh  - conversation quantity is very little
D: mm (.) what about you? have you got a job?
A: yeah I got a job I work at Costa (2)
All: (laughs)
C: [we’ve had this conversation before]
D: [how many hours do you do?]
A: 15 hours a week
D: is that good or bad? - chaning
A: that’s good (.) but then it takes up all my social time so I got no friends anymore - non-standard grammar
C: [mm that’s sad]
B: [aw that’s sad] - synchronicity of C and B shows that they have known each other for a long time
A: yeah I know
B&D: (laughs)
C: what Costa do you work at?
A: the one in Avonmeads
C: oh yeah [the new one?]
D: [do you get discounts on the stuff?]
A: I get it free if I go into that shop (.) and then if I go into other shops [I get like 45% off]
C: [okay I’m gonna go work at Costa] - lots of overlaps. Shows that A, C and D are friends
A: (laughs) [but um yeah] - fillers
C: [yeah]
A: I’ve only worked there for like (2) I’ve only had two pay packets now so like two months (2) - hedges/voiced pauses - timed pauses
C: I need a job
B: so do I (.) I need money
C: It’s so sad - phatic talk
A: [this is just turning into like a]
All: (laughs)
A: [like a sad conversation] - non-fluency features
D: are we done?
A: (.) yeah - colloquial language
B: how do I stop it?
D: (laughs) - paralinguistic features
C: how do you stop that?  - tag question
A: we haven’t even been talking for a minute
D: that’s alright

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