Job conversation transcript.

Job conversation transcript

A: have you got a job?

B: (laughs) no I don’t but I've applied for lots of places

A: where have you applied for?

B: Um Argos, House of Fraser (Debenhams)

A: (did you not have any replies)

B: No (.) well the people either ignore me or tell me that I don’t (.) have the right thing for the job (2) that didn’t make sense but yeah (laughs) 

A: Have you got a job C?

C: I don’t have a job but I’ve applied for many places (.) like B I’ve applied for (.) House of Fraser (.) my recent one I got  (.) told I can’t work at Lush because I pat my thighs

All: (Laughs)

C: That’s a bad (.) thing to have apparently (2)

A: Oh (.) fair enough

C: I know its great

B: (laughs)

A: D have you got a job?

D: No I don’t have a job because (.) nowhere gets back to me so I’m still looking

A: Oh  - conversation quantity = very little, creating a halt in conversation flow. 

D: Mm (.) what about you? Have you got a job?

A: Yeah I got a job I work at Costa (2)

All: (laughs)

C: (we’ve had this conversation before)

D: (How many hours do you do?)

A; 15 hours a week

D: Is that good or bad?

A: That’s good (.) but then it takes up all my social time so I got no friends anymore 

C: (mm that’s sad)                                                                 non-standard English 

B: (aw that’s sad)

A: Yeah I know

B&D: (laugh)

C: What Costa do you work at?

A: The one in Avonmeads

C: Oh yeah (the new one?)

D: (Do you get discounts on stuff?)

A: I get it free if I go into that shop (.) and then if I go into other shops (I get like 45% off)

C: (Okay I’m gonna go work at Costa)

A; (laughs)(but um yeah)

C: (yeah)

A: I’ve only worked there for like (2) I’ve only had two pay packets now so like two months (2)

C: I need a job

B: So do I (.) I need money

C: It’s so sad

A: (this is just turning into like a)

All: (laughs)

A: (like a sad conversation)

D: Are we done?

A: (.) yeah

B: How do I stop it?

D: (laughs)

C: how do you stop that?

A: We haven’t even been talking for a minute

D: that’s alright

Yellow highlight = Paralingustic features. (laughing/body language etc.)

Purple highlight = overlapping conversation, interruptions, happens more during the later part of the conversation where people are getting more comfortable after a while. 

Green highlight = indicating the pauses used in the conversation, (.) means small pause, (2) means longer pause. Most of these pauses are just allowing people to find their train of thought etc.