Me:  what did your job a diesel involve?
Des: jeans
Me: jus
Ciara: did you sell the jeans to people? how did that go?
Des: it was great

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Me: does that mean you can tell anyone their jean size?

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Me: does anyone have any responsibilities in their families?

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Ciara: I uh walk my dog
Me: you /walk/ your dog?
Clara: /like/ like twice a week maybe
Me: is that it?
Ciara: everyone else does it I don't really wanna do it so that's kinda my responsibility
Me: that's the whole reason I don't want a dog cuz

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What i found out about myself as speaker when listening and writing up a transcript:

I spoke quite confidently, however this may have been because i knew the people i was talking too. Although i spoke confidently i had hardly any airtime, when i spoke i said what was need and then it was passed on to the next person who would answer the question or carry on the conversation. I believe i am more of a active listner (Schegloff's conversational model) as i don't say much but i input where i believe it is needed and when i feel something should be said or asked.
Throughout the whole talk it is awkward, this could be due to it not being a usual conversation that i would usually have with friends and so it made it look more forced. The questions i asked did not come across in a way that suggested that i may be interested in what their answer will be. 
I mostly asked questions, this interpreted in refrence to Fishman could suggest that it is a sign of me showing power whithin the conversation and an attribute to interaction. On the other hand Lakoff believes questions are a sign of weakness. I think i used mostly paralingustics (which cannot be shown on a transcript) to pass over to the next speaker. Also, i used vocatives to pass the conversation, even though i didn't say their name it was a direct address as they were not broad questions. I believe a key part of me as a speaker is the paralinguistics i use, facial expressions and body language. 

Gender representations

In this picture women are represented as weak. The question 'You mean a woman can open it?' is emphasising that women would not normally be strong enough to open the jar. It's allowing the audience to look at it and assume that they have made it easier to open so a woman can do it. It is suggesting that if a woman can do it anyone can.

This picture is showing exactly what people believe their child should be associated when they are a girl or a boy. As Tannen said the diffrence in he genders language starts at childhood, the magnets are even labled 'boy talk' and 'girl talk' as if girls have to talk using the words on the girl magnets and thr boys have to talk using the words on the boy magnets. Tannen sugested that boys are fed more verbs and this is strong supported by the magnets as the 'boys talk' has words such as 'swinging', 'climbing' and 'running'. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCyw3prIWhc

This video show Ellen talking about Bic For Her pens, she talks about the idea of the pen that is just for women. The pen is meant to be better for 'lady hands' and comes in colours such as pink and purple. Just from the packaging of this pen it is representing the image that most gils have to like the colour pink or purple because they are 'girl' clolours. On the packet of one of the pack of pens it says 'beautifully smooth', the adverb 'beautifully' is sterotypically a feminine word. the idea that now there is a pen for women all other pens were for men and now women have these pens that are pretty colours and fitted for a more feminie hand.

Analysing 7 years by Lukas Graham

It was a big big world, but we thought we were bigger
Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker
By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor
Never rich so we were out to make that steady figure

Once I was eleven years old my daddy told me
Go get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely
Once I was eleven years old

I always had that dream like my daddy before me
So I started writing songs, I started writing stories
Something about the glory, just always seemed to bore me
Cause only those I really love will ever really know me


This song is about growing up, how the writer experienced it and how he is looking towards the future,questioning it. The way the writer is portraying himself is more of a general vision, this may be to allow those listening to relate and think back to their childhood. I think a lot of it is showing the pressures of growing up and to grow up faster. 

Later in the song he says 'soon ill be 60 years old' this could be him telling everyone life is short as he sings about key stages in life. The idea of his dad telling him to find a wife at eleven is showing the pressure and how fast people want children to grow up. The repetition  of 'once i was eleven years old' is like he is reminiscing, this could suggest he may miss being that young.

When he talks about it being a big world but he thought he was bigger is the idea that all children think they know everything . This idea may have influenced how he grew up, it could show that he was a bold child who thought he was bigger than the world, like nothing could drag him down.

He says 'the glory, just always seemed to bore me' which could suggest that he is a down to earth person. The idea of fame and glory is not appealing and as a child he may have been someone who was always in the background and didn't want to be center of attention.