Transcript analysis

Throughout this piece of text, there are 5 main speakers. There are both female and male speakers within and for the purpose of this text, they will be referred as ‘B, L, M, C and D’. B, L and M, are all male, and the rest are female. The conversation was between 5 students (friends) that were talking in the common room in their free periods.

It is clear that throughout this text, B is the most dominant, frequent speaker and normally dominates any other speaker. At the beginning of the text, L is the dominant speaker that asked all the questions such as ‘How many likes do you get on Instagram? I only get about 70’. Then cutting in, B then takes over the conversation by explaining how many likes he gets also. Throughout this section of the text, B instigates adjacency pairs, such as ‘what on Instagram?, yeah on Instagram? These are questions that have an answer to them. Later on in the text, B takes over the power of the conversation by shaping and changing topics that suit him the most. He goes on to tell C what time they’re going out tonight and where they will be going to. The whole group’s attention is diverted to B and now B and C’s conversation is the centre of attention and being discussed by everyone. B is a male and its common knowledge that men are seen as the more dominant characters and most in power at all times, this is also evident throughout this part in the text. Even without B, there are other males within the conversation that take over with their dominance and it’s most common that within, it’s the males that but in the conversations. Although there is many points were the people conversing interrupt each other, there is also a lot of turn taking in order for the conversation to run smoothly, even if there is filler and hedges involved. This shows the relationship with the friends as it suggests they are quite close as there’s no awkward silences involved. This conversation is an informal register and doesn’t have a set purpose, its clear it was just a conversation to fill time and just genuinely chat with friends.