Mark: Hey awww (dialect) Alex you know how awkward it is talking to a camera.
Kamrul: Yeah because they don’t talk back do they? (Rhetorical)
Alex: It’s bare (Slang) rude innit? (Dialect)
Mark: (laugh) Yeah because it seems so forced because you don’t get anything out of it, it seems so pointless.
Alex: I find it so funny I can’t stop laughing. (laugh)
Mark: Yeah innit (abbreviation) it’s really, like, annoyin’ (dialect) you can’t stop laughing.
Alex: MAAAAAAHHHHHH! (Noise) (Filler)
Mark: Yeah Kamrul how ’bout (dialect) you what do you think about it?
Kamrul: I don’t like talking to cameras. (Shrugs – paralinguistic feature)
Mark: Why not?
Alex: (Interrupts) What do you think we should talk about to this camera?
Mark: (Confused) What camera?
Kamrul: It looks dodgy, it looks dodgy. (Looks at camera)
Alex: There! (points at camera) What should we talk to it about?
Mark: Life?
Alex: LIFE! (Raises voice)
Mark: 42, That’s pretty much it.
Alex: (Mumbles) 42.
Kamrul:Yeah, 42.
Mark: You can end it there.
Soren : But why?! (Raises voice)
October 9, 2012 at 4:50 pm
There are some other elements of speaking that can be observed int he video, for example, turn-taking and who is dominant in the conversation that can be added to this transcript.
The next step is for you to explore this transcript in relation to the text-conversation you have already captured. What do they have in common, what differs?
Think of classifying the features of both in three categories. Text only, Both, and Spoken Only.