Spoken discourse

SPOKEN DISCOURSE

I. INTRODUCTION

This essay deals with an instance of a spoken discourse, and tries to analyse wholeness part of it in terms of interactional strategies and transfigure procedures, go for its different part it aims at describing it by applying some rules of a grammar of speech to it.

The analysed discourse is a part of a television receiver broadcast of a snowboarding big-air jumping competition (Eurosport, February 2001). It foot be divided in three parts: a explanation and two interviews. The commentator (referred to as well as as C in the essay) gives a report of the competition as it goes along and also informs the television audience close the background of the actual happening. midway there ar two short interviews with two of the riders - Leslee Olson (referred to also as L in the essay) and Barret Christy (referred to also as B in the essay). They are interviewed by the interviewer (referred to also as I in the essay), whose job is to catch the riders after their performance and ask them about their jumps. This has to be done quickly in order for the contagion of the competition to go on as uninterruptedly as possible.

Since in the interviews the speakers interact actively, i.e.



they take turns, these two parts can be analysed according to Anna-Britta Stenstroms theory of conversation set forth in her book An Introduction to Spoken Interaction. Her description of interactional strategies and exchange procedures should also apply to such short instances of interaction between two parties as are these two interviews.

The commentary, on the other hand, is an example of a spoken discourse where there are no direct responses to what the speaker says. Therefore it cannot be analysed in the same way as the interviews, but has to be described in...

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