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Analysing Rita

Task C – Interruptions and indications of non-fluency

Interruptions:

There are only two interruptions, which in this text are indicated at the ends of turns by ‘. . .’ In both cases (turns 8/9 and 23/24), Frank is interrupted by Rita. Schematically we would probably expect no interruptions at all, and if there were any we would expect Frank, the socially powerful participant, to interrupt Rita, not the other way round. So this pattern correlates with what we saw in Task B, and contributes to Rita’s unusually forceful conversational style.

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