(7.11 SC)
Summons
Here
mam
. Will you throw me up a couple of+
Tryin to get the lights up.
Look at the dirt of you.
+
mam
.
Connor
will you <$O> throw <\$O> me up a
couple of those boxes that are spare an I’ll put them on.
<$O> What <\$O>?
Son 1 attempts on two occasions to summon the attention of the mother. He is
apparently unsuccessful as he instead turns his attention to Connor () who
answers his summons.
Topic management
Topic management refers to any utterance or set of utterances that launch, expand,
shift, change or close a topic. Included here also is what McCarthy and O’Keeffe
(2003: 162) have termed
topic validation
, whereby a speaker calls on another
conversational participant by name to validate or confirm an assertion. In this
extract, the family are standing together discussing whether or not the vacuum
cleaner still works:
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