Example Dialogue/Spoken Conversation Extracts

 

(i)

1

A

You wanna join us?

2

B

I haven’t got any money.

3

A

I’ll treat you.

4

B

Really?

Oh that’s great, I guess I’ll come along

 

(ii)

A

Do you know where Leo is?

B

No.

 

(iii)

1

B

An’s.- an ( ) we were discussing, it tur- it comes down, he s- he says, I-I-you’ve talked about this- si- i- about this many times, I said, it comes down t’this: =

2

B

= Our main difference: I feel that a government, i- the main thing, is.- the-the purpose a’the governmen, is, what is best for the country.

3

A

Mmhmmm

4

B

He says, governments, an’ you know he keeps- he talks about governments, they sh- the thing that they sh’d do is what’s right or wrong.

5

A

For whom.

6

B

Well he says- he-

7

A

By what standard.

8

B

That’s what- that’s exactly what I mean, he s- but he says...

 

(iv)

(Family dinner, Mother, Gary, Russ)

1

M

‘z everybody (0.2) washed for dinner?

2

G

Yah.

3

M

Daddy ‘n I have t-both go in different directions, en I wanna talk ta about were I’m going (t’night).

4

R

mm hmmm

5

G

is it about us?

6

M

Uh huh

7

R

I know where you’re go’in

8

M

Where.

9

G

To the uh (eigth grade)=

10

M

= Yeah. Right.

Do you know who’s going to that meeting?

11

R

Who.

12

M

I don’t know.

13

R

Oh::: Prob’ly Missiz McOwen (‘n detsa) en prob’ly Missiz Cadry and some of the teachers (0.4) and the counsellors.

 

 

 

Side-Sequences

 

(i)

1

A

Uh, she asked me to stop by, she bought a chest of drawers from um (4.0)

2

A

What’s that gal’s name? Just went back to Michigan. (2.0)

3

A

Helen, um.

4

B

Oh I know who you mean, (1.0)

5

B

Brady—Brady.

6

A

Yeah! Helen Brady.

7

B

Mm hm,

8

A

And, she—she says she’s uh never had a new bedroom set so she’s fixed this all up....

 

(ii)

1

B

No, I had the queen Cora. And uh Ray uh that Morgan, or—no their names aren’t "Morgan", but Ray an’ Lisa or Lah—um oh whoever they are

2

A

Yeah I—I keep saying "Morgan"—Smith

3

B

Yeah, Smith

4

A

Uh huh

5

B

Uh—that Ray had the ace-king.

 

(iii)

A

Hello.

B

"Hello: :"?!

A

Yeah. Hello.

B

Wuh—Is this 293-4637?

A

No it’s 293-4673.

B

Oh, I’m awfully sorry.

(iv)

B

But the air’s gotta come in there and the air is sorta infiltrated with little uh pixy dust

A

"Pixy dust" !?

B

You know, from the big boom?

A

"Pixy dust" !?

C

"Radioactivity" I think is what he means.

A

(hh) Oh. Okay.

D

hmh hmh

A

I don’t see what a bomb shelter-

B

from that big bonfire in the sky hehh

A

Ey you know, I don’t see...