Essay On Conversation

The most basic register of the human language is conversation (Biber & Conrad, 2009). And conversation is a general register category, under which there are specific sub-registers such as personal conversation and workplace conversation, but they all take place in the spoken mode.

Compared with the two dialogues, the first one is a personal conversation while the second one is a workplace conversation. Since the first one happens between friends, it is more casual. The second dialogue happens between a police officer and a citizen, so it is more professional and formal.

The first conversation is between two friends and it is about daily life and chatting. They run into each other and first greets with each other and then Billy asks Ali where

Conversation one is a personal conversation between friends so it is more casual. Repetitions occur like ‘Listen, listen’ to stress the importance of the words he says. Self-repairs like ‘I’m I’m… busy in my studies’ to show his thinking while the conversation takes place. And ‘I study all the time’ and ‘That’s why you don’t feel well’ are the examples of co-constructed utterance. On the contrary, these linguistic features of conversation do not occur that much in the conversation two since it is a more formal and professional workplace conversation, especially not on what the police officer

The conversation one is the personal conversation which is why the first and the second person pronouns occur to refer to a specific person in the conversation. For instance, they say ‘I have always got a headache’ and ‘Why don’t you tell me clearly?’ However, except for the first and the second pronoun, speakers in the second conversation refers a lot to other people, so the third person pronouns a lot in the conversation two such as ‘If a man is in a hurry, he has to violate a signal’ and ‘But they can’t run across the road when the light is