Table 1 and table 2

Analysing Spoken Texts

Task 1. Identify main conversational features of Spoken Discourse. Use the information provided in TABLE 1 and TABLE 2 below after the sample answers.

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…

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

S2-Er <>haven’t decided yet but somewhere in the city

S1-You’ll be central [S2- Yeah] 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…

S2- Right and where ‘s that?

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

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

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..

S2- Yeah

Task 2. Answer the questions.

1.What is the genre, mode, audience and purpose of the text?

2.What is the register of the text? Underline signaling vocabulary in the text.

3. Identify conversational features of spoken discourse and highlight them in different colours (Sample 1) or comment on the spot (Sample 2).

4. What type of Grammar is used there in the text?(Descriptive Grammar or Prescriptive Grammar) Justify your answer with some evidence.( Answering this question is optional. Before answering do self study and investigate these two types of grammar.)