This document provides an overview of conversational analysis through a simulated conversation. It discusses various linguistic elements of conversation including turn-taking, overlap, adjacency pairs, self-selection, and intonation patterns. The presentation uses examples from a discussion about tone units between Roy and others to demonstrate conversational analysis techniques for exploring how people verbally and nonverbally engage in talk.

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.

14. BY KAJAL CHANDRA ROY