Conversation Analysis

J: I was stalking his insta today actually(.) not even gonna lie(laughs)

O:(laughs)

Je:(laughs)

Ol:(laughs)

J: What's it like working there/

Je:                                           / yeah what's it like?

O: Urm it;s alright(.) the pays good which is the main thing.

Ol: Work at The Fat Turk doesn't even count as work to be honest (.) everyone working their is so peng and the money's good/

Je:                                            /and they give you alcohol on the job(.)i need to come work there/

Ol:                                                                                                                                                  /same! and the man who served me last time i was in there(.)i need to see him again.(laughs)

O:(laughs)

Je:(laughs)go on! 

J:(laughs)

This conversation consists of four people, speaker Ol and Je are the most dominant speakers within the conversation because they have used the most context throughout. The conversation obtains language of a low register and high frequency throughout, with words such as 'gonna' used, instead of 'going to', this is a representation of informal language called elision, where the speaker is being lazy or out of  bad habit they choose to slur together two sounds or syllables to increase the speed of the conversation.The conversation begins with a declarative sentence from speaker J, within this sentence there's elision language for example, 'gonna' and there's also use of abbreviation. Instead of the speaker naming the app by its full name, i.e Instagram, they have decided to shorten it to 'insta' to save time. The response to this sentence is laughter from the other 3 participants in the conversation,this is a common response to a sentence throughout the conversation, and this magnifies the relaxed relationship between the participants and conveys the informality of the conversation aswell as giving a more accurate representation of who the participants may be and what environment they are in. For example a couple of friends having a general chat as opposed to an interview type scenario. Furthermore, there's over-lapping of speech several times throughout the conversation, for example when speaker Je interrupts speaker J and again when speaker Je interrupts speaker Ol etc. This again emphasises the informality of the conversation because turn taking is being used but participants over-lapping speech within the conversation is still very common. Another example of where the informality of the conversation is conveyed is through the use of hiatus and non fluency features, for example 'urm' used by speaker O. By speaker O using this language it implies the speaker was unprepared which is expected because they were responding to the use of transactional language from speaker J and Je.