Watch the ‘Stew Dinner’ video clip, study the transcript, and then discuss the following questions with members of your group.
Discussion questions:
a. In this data extract, do the family members seem to be taking turns to speak? Can you go through the transcript line by line and describe the turn-taking that seems to be taking place?
b. Is each turn more or less identifiable? Can you make a list of all the turns that seem clearly identifiable to you, and then make another list of bits of talk that may or may not be identifiable as turns? Can you comment on each item on the second list, in terms of whether or in what sense they should or should not be described as turns?
c. Go through the data extract again and make a list of all the turn transition relevance places (TRPs) that you can find. Comment on each TRP in terms of how it is handled by the conversational participants, e.g., Does the current speaker stop talking and another speaker begin talking, or does the current speaker carry on to produce more talk?
d. How are turn transitions managed by the participants? At each TRP, describe how the turn transition (or the lack of it) is managed.