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Identifying Structural Features Spoken Language - A-LEVEL ENGLISH / ENGLISH LITERATURE & LANGUAGE SPOKEN LANGUAGE TOPIC...

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IDENTIFYING STRUCTURAL FEATURES: Lance Armstrong Transcript: •

Use of turn – taking – initially they take turns speaking and formally approach the interview but this changes later on in the interview.

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Discourse Markers – used frequently throughout, show nervousness, use of negative politeness and topic-shifting.

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Adjacency pairs - broken through double questioning.

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Interruptions and overlaps – shows building tension, defensive and accusatory tone is presented from the interviewer and interviewee.

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Vague language (doesn’t make point very well and is very blank) and pausing shows lack of fluency – shows pressure of interview and shows Lance as being defensive, his language is breaking down. Use of non-fluency features, elongation and fillers shows he tries to create time to think and justify himself.

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Lance Uses Hedging – avoids responding to the interviewer.

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Use of Negative Politeness – Lance restructures his speech frequently to try and prevent a face threating act but the interviewer constantly is on the edge of possibly committing a face threatening act.

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Face Threatening Act – interviewer breaches upon this and this frustrates Lance and causes tension within the interview.

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Avoidance of responsibility – Lance pushes blame onto government to avoid the main issue being asked about.

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Use of First person inclusive pronoun ‘we’ – Lance doesn’t want to accept individual responsibility for his actions. He tries to avoid the interview being a personal attack on him, he feels as though he is a ‘scape goat’ for the scandal.

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Paralinguistic laughing – This shows Lance’s nervousness and shows that he is uncomfortable.

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Backchanneling - goes back on himself and questions what he has said before, he backtracks and thinks about what he is saying.

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Emphatic – he is not comfortable in the situation and shows this clearly.

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Power – power shifts between both the interviewer and interviewee. When Lance gains power the interviewer takes the floor and interrupts him and takes control and directs the conversation.

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Interviewer wants to get to the truth – it is his job to find out the truth about the situation and he does this by interrogating Lance.

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Lance tries to get sympathy – he talks about his experience with the American Police and government. He repeats the dynamic verb ‘forced’ twice to emphasise how he feels but changes this to ‘compelled’ which could show manipulation of the situation. He talks about the police knocking on his door and threatening him which is an attempt to gain sympathy.

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Use of interrogatives – interviewer is trying to get to the point and get the truth....