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  • Essay / How we communicate in conversations - 1120

    The way language is used in a social context is the study of discourse and when language is recognized in its context it evolves into the understanding that communication is more that “only grammar and lexicon”. » as North (2012) points out. Whether written or spoken when used in real-life situations, language has a function regardless of its form. Furthermore, different registers are applied in different contexts depending on the participants engaged in the conversation. Therefore, this essay will examine the settings, participant backgrounds, social context, register, turn-taking, and other elements that contribute to the creation and analysis of different types of conversations on different sample transcripts . More specifically, the aim of this essay is to discuss how people use English as a social tool in ordinary conversation through the discipline of conversation analysis on each speech act, as mentioned by Allington and Mayor (2012), which are actions taken while speaking', which was transcribed from clip 8.2 on DVD1 (The Open University, 2012) and other elements of the module as well. Conversation Analysis Actions performed while speaking are speech acts and they are intended to be examined through conversation analysis, which was introduced by sociologists Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff, and Gail Jefferson. The crux of everyday conversation is “that it is dialogic” (Allington and Mayor, 2012, p. 8), therefore, each participant's utterance is directed towards the other participant. Bakhin (1952), cited in Allington and Mayor (2012), argues that this is particularly in conversation, where people "regularly refer to what people have said and they also expect "what 'they might say next' and 'a... ... middle of article... relationships are clearly indicated "in the terms" that "people use to address each other" (Allington and Mayor, 2012, p. Allington and Mayor (2012) provide a series of examples taking into account addressing terms. One of these examples recalls the “classic example” from the 1960s, that of an African-American doctor who was insulted three times by the police officer and, according to Dr. Poussaint, cited in Ervin-Tripp (1969, pp. 93, 98). ), his own experience of the encounter was one of "profound humiliation" when he said: "For the moment, my manhood had been torn from me." Allington and Mayor (2012) also note that business firms in the UK tend to address their customers in informal terms. Depending on the context, relationship, age, gender, social class, ethnicity, place of origin, people employ different modes of conversation. styles.