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Analysing Major Barbara

Task I - Look back at the table of prototypical turn-taking factors and compare what we have found in Major Barbara extract.

Go back to the pattern of prototypical turn-taking behaviour we constructed intuitively in relation to conversational structure and power, and compare what we have found for Lady Britomart and Stephen with the prototypes we began with.

What does the comparison tell us about Lady Britomart and Stephen?

 

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