I think spoken discourse is pretty confusing. The lecture only mentions examples after examples of speech events as an extended version of spoken discourse but doesn't define spoken discourse.
"Like that how ah?!"
A very typical phrase students use when confused about school content to communicate within local context. Is that a spoken discourse or a speech act?
I believe my answers should be coming soon! *hint!! mr deng* Heh!
Nevertheless, for telephonic conversations spoken discourse, what I find most interesting is voice recognition comments. How a single utterance, regardless of whether it is "hello" or "Hey!" can be used to identify the other party!! Its like making CallerIDs primitive again!!
Though I say so, I've come across people who cannot recognize voices to save their lives; like my mom. Having three daughters of similar DNA structures somehow or rather gives them similar voices. Either that or her hearing deteriorates with each child birthed. Whenever she calls home not looking for anyone in particular (eg: call home to get the first unlucky listener to do the laundry), she would encounter problems differentiating the voices of her three uniquely different offsprings.
Mom: (Ring)(Ring)
Me: Yes what's up? (after checking the CallerID)
Mom: Who is this?
Me: Me!
Mom: Who are you!?
Me: I am me!!
It probably goes on for a while before she gives up and proceeded to call our individual hand phones. So I wonder does the research models work for outliers like my mom who has an inability to differentiate voices? :p
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Well, research needs to be able to account for potentially all occurrences of the conversational feature we're examining.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that there is so much confusion about the term spoken discourse. I thought the term itself is self-evident. The framework for the description of speech event is actually applicable to both spoken and written discourse. In the lecture on spoken discourse, I've simply provided examples of research interests on extended oral discourse, which may not be as ritualized as some prototypical examples of speech events.
hm..i think voice recognition pretty much doesn't apply to today's society ever since the birth of caller IDs. For people like me who would rather shorten the conversation, i would usually just pick up with one word 'What?' or say nothing at all, expecting the caller to go straight to the topic, not wasting my time.
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