1. The opening of the conversation
Although the male speaker (following Mark) initiated the phone call to the police department, the opening of the conversation starts with the greeting “good morning, public information” uttered by the female participant who is the Secretary of the Connecticut police department (following police).
Police: Good morning=public information.
Mark: Hey, how you doin?
Police: I am good=Thank you=How are you? ↑
Mark: Alright. This is Mark.I’m just calling abou:t the, uh, what’s goin with, uh, the gun laws right now in Connecticut. They say, uh, they all have to be registered. Is that still goin on at this? ↑ Unlike a usual phone conversation which would start with exchanging the greeting word“hello”, between …show more content…
Whenever the police pose a delay by pausing and leaving gaps during her speeches, Mark selects himself initiating a new utterance as the following transcriptions display.
Police: °I don’t know that either, um (10).
[Mark: But they are (2)hh there is a talk a:bout unregistered guns of American citizens taken away. Is that correct?↑]
4. Dispreferred Responses and Repair
In this conversation, dispreferred responses and Repair are usually occurred in the speeches of the police. Also, her speeches have a tendency to facilitate Dispreferred responses and Repair together as a pair in a series of utterances which indicate the delay of the rejection to give an appropriate answer and wind up the utterance with placing Repair at the end as the transcriptions below show.
Mark: OK. Do you have a number that I can ca:ll to get some answer on that? Because that was against constitution of (the) United States.
Police: Well(.) Delay
Police: I need to take your number Preface (or) Account
Police: And I will have to have someone call you ba::ck. Rejection
Police: °May I have your name and number?↑
Although the male speaker (following Mark) initiated the phone call to the police department, the opening of the conversation starts with the greeting “good morning, public information” uttered by the female participant who is the Secretary of the Connecticut police department (following police).
Police: Good morning=public information.
Mark: Hey, how you doin?
Police: I am good=Thank you=How are you? ↑
Mark: Alright. This is Mark.I’m just calling abou:t the, uh, what’s goin with, uh, the gun laws right now in Connecticut. They say, uh, they all have to be registered. Is that still goin on at this? ↑ Unlike a usual phone conversation which would start with exchanging the greeting word“hello”, between …show more content…
Whenever the police pose a delay by pausing and leaving gaps during her speeches, Mark selects himself initiating a new utterance as the following transcriptions display.
Police: °I don’t know that either, um (10).
[Mark: But they are (2)hh there is a talk a:bout unregistered guns of American citizens taken away. Is that correct?↑]
4. Dispreferred Responses and Repair
In this conversation, dispreferred responses and Repair are usually occurred in the speeches of the police. Also, her speeches have a tendency to facilitate Dispreferred responses and Repair together as a pair in a series of utterances which indicate the delay of the rejection to give an appropriate answer and wind up the utterance with placing Repair at the end as the transcriptions below show.
Mark: OK. Do you have a number that I can ca:ll to get some answer on that? Because that was against constitution of (the) United States.
Police: Well(.) Delay
Police: I need to take your number Preface (or) Account
Police: And I will have to have someone call you ba::ck. Rejection
Police: °May I have your name and number?↑