Table 1 and table 2

Sample answer 2


Elision; gonna =am going to


S1-Can I help?

S2-Yes erm I’m gonna stay in Plymouth for a couple of days erm I was wondering if I could get some information off you erm is is there a swimming pool or in Plymouth…


Fillers

Adjacency pair: offer-acceptance; response is ‘Preferred’ as the speaker gives a positive reply



Ellipsis: there is is omitted

Discourse marker showing sequence


S1-Yes erm the one in the city center where are you staying first of all?


Adjacency pair functioning as Question -Answer
S2-Er <>haven’t decided yet but somewhere in the city


Fillers



Overlap: they are cooperative overlaps as the speaker supports his interlocutor

Hedging

S1-You’ll be central [S2- Yeah]

S1- Ok well there’s a fun pool in the city center that’s the pavilions but if you want some serious sort of exercise swimming then the [S2- Yeah] It’s central park that you need that has 33 meter pool that has lane swimming early in the morning [S2- Right]and there is a separate diving pit as well there…


Filler as the speakers kills/takes time to formulate his idea

Deixis : indicates to the place stated in the conversation



Deixis denotes places known to the speakers



Overlap: cooperative as it is encouraging the interlocutor to continue to speak




S2- Right and where ‘s that?


Adjacency pair: question –answer

Response: Preferred

S1- It’s in the Central Park (6 seconds) right you’re here at the moment [S2- Yeah] and Central Park is up here the swimming pool’s[S2- oh right] up here


Deixis showing the place

Fillers




S2- Lovely thanks erm there are any beaches (1 second) around here?


Adjacency pair: Question-Answer

Response is ‘PREFERRED” as speaker gives positive answer

S1- Sandy beaches do you mean?

S2- Yeah yeah

S1- Sandiest beaches are erm either Whitesand Bay is over to the right vaguely as you’re looking out of Plymouth Sound it is around sort of the corner and out along the bay there..


Adjacency pair: Question- Answer

Response: preferred as the speaker gets a positive reply

S2- Yeah


Minimal response: the speaker demonstrates that he listens