1.
WELCOME TO MY
PRESENTATION
MY TOPIC ON
CONVERSATIONAL
ANALYSIS

2.
CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS
It is a method that explores systematically how
people talk, verbally and nonverbally.

3.
Roy: Dear friends, now we are going
to discuss about ‘Phonetics and
Phonology’.
Kumar: Well, what topic should be
discussed first?
Roy: ‘Intonation’ but do not whole
chapter only ‘The tone-unit’.
Turn-taking

4.
Roy: Do you know what is Intonation?
Kumar: Yes, Intonation the - the frequency-
Joy: The frequency of the
vibration of the vocal cords.
Overlapping

5.
Meanwhile, Kamal and Jamal enter into the room.
Kamal: Hello everybody
Roy: Hello Kamal
Jamal: Hello everybody
Roy: Hello Jamal
Adjacency Pair
Roy: Kamal, Sit here, Sit here.
Kamal: Thank you. Recurs

6.
Roy: Can we start our discussion?
Kamal: Yes, hurry up.
Self Selection
Roy: Let’s start about ‘The tone-unit’. ‘The tone-unit’
is a stretch of speech uttered under a single coherent
intonation contour.
Complete Utterance

7.
Jamal: What is tone?
Roy:…(silence).
Jamal: Hello, didn’t you here me?
Roy: The pattern of variation on a pitch of the
voice is called tone since…
Post Com
pletor
Incompletion marker
Roy: Since, the pitch varies but it does not vary in a
haphazard manner, it varies in a pattern. Everybody
okay?
Possible-closing

8.
Roy: Five types of tone-unit.
#Rising tone
#falling tone
#Rising-falling tone
#Falling-rising tone
#Level tone
Kamal: How can we understand rise tone or fall
tone?
Roy: The rising tone may be used incomplete
utterances, yes/no Q. It is used friendly way,
polite request. And falling tone may be used
ordinary statement, commands, do not use
incomplete utterances or yes/no Q.
Repair initiator

9.
Roy: How are you felling now?
All: Quite well.
Roy: Can we start about ‘rising-
falling tone’ and ‘falling-rising
tone’?
All: Okay.
Pre-invitation
Jamal: can I stop you for sometime?
Roy: Yes, what’s your problem?
Jamal: Can you tell about intonation
again?
Roy: You can see the book.
Pre-request
and
Request

10.
Roy: The rising-falling tone is a
combination of a rising and falling tone.
Jamal: What was the falling- rising tone?
[Q]
Roy: Well, do you understand rising-falling
tone ? [Q1]
Jamal: Yes. [A1]
Roy: The falling- rising tone normally
indicates that something implied- through
this tone can express other attitudes as
well. [A]
Insertionsequence

11.
Kamal: But. How can I identify
falling tone?
Roy: When you find statement,
command or Yes/No Q.
Jamal: Yes/No Q.?
Roy: Yes.
Kumar: Are you sure?
Roy: oh! No, It is WH-Q.
Side sequence

12.
Roy: You should call it falling tone when you
find commands.[statement]
Kamal: Is it request? [Misapprehension]
Roy: No, this rule should be applied only
commands. [Clarification]
Kamal: Oh, yeah, thank you.[Terminator]
The sequence misapprehension-clarification

13.
Roy: Hello friends, we will continue our
discussion after the class. Thank you
everybody.
All. Thank you Roy.

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BY KAJAL CHANDRA ROY