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Topic 11 - Conversational structure and character (Session A) > Analysing Major Barbara

Analysing Major Barbara

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Analysing Major Barbara

Now that you have experienced the extract from Major Barbara and thought about it in general interpretative terms, we need to analyse the text using the kind of approach we explored in Task B of Conversational structure and Power.

The tasks below are designed to help you go through the text systematically and build up an analytical profile of it, so that you can compare the analysis, the interpretative comments you, and we, came up with on the previous page.

Note: During the following tasks you can access the passage using the link under the 'useful links' section of the menu on the left.

Task A - Who has the longest turns?
Task B - Who has the most turns?
Task C - Who interrupts who?
Task D - Who allocates turns to who, if at all?
Task E - Who initiates the conversational exchanges and who responds?
Task F - Who uses coercive speech acts?
Task G - Who controls the topic?
Task H - What terms of address do the two characters use towards each other?
Task I - Look back at the table of prototypical turn-taking factors and compare what we have found in Major Barbara extract.
Task J - Anything else of significance?


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