Phone Call Narrative

The first abstract of this narrative is when the speaker initially mentions the reason why he makes the phone call to the police department as he says “This is Mark. I’m just calling a:bout the, uh, what’s goin with, uh, the gun laws right now in Connecticut.” The sentences established to commence the aim of the conversation as he explicitly explains the purpose of why he made the phone call to the police department. Following his comment on the purpose of the phone call, the orientation of this narrative is identified in the clause “what’s goin with, uh, the gun laws right now in Connecticut. They say, uh, they all have to be registered”. The phrases provide background information about the topic of the conversation and when and where the …show more content…
The first evaluation is identified when he mentions that “cause I know there is a talk about that” as the transcription shows below. The first evaluation occurs after the second complicating action, in which his question was not answered. By proclaiming his knowledge on the current gun confiscation situation, he attempts to show his power in terms of information and knowledge on the issue, aiming to induce more valuable information from the …show more content…
This discourse contains language displaying the status of relation between power and discourse as the transcription below. However, unlike other institutional discourses in which police takes the position as a questioner, Mark in this conversation dominantly selects and controls the topic on the issues as he repeatedly asks the police questions on the topic, whereas the police passively reacts to the topic, providing him with only a limited range of information, hence taking a position with more power naturally falls into place as one person asks the other