The recording comes from the US and consists of an entire 2 minute 30 second conversation made to a police station. Use this data to answer the following questions.

1. Explain the turn allocation in lines 1-5 using the turn-taking rules of Sacks et al (1974). (4 marks) attached already

2. Account for the silence in line 18 and the overlap in lines 25/26 (4 marks)

3. What is the base adjacency pair around which most of this conversation is built? Is there an explicit second pair part? If so, is it preferred or dispreferred? If not, what evidence do you have that it is ‘officially absent’? (4 marks)

4. Analyse the sequence organisation of the entire conversation, identifying first and second pair parts, any pre-expansions, insert-expansions (post- first, pre-second or side sequence), and post-expansions. (6 marks)
5. Provide an account for lines 19 to 36 in terms of preference organisation, as outlined in the Pomerantz and Heritage (2013) chapter. (5 marks) 2013 Anita Pomerantz and John Heritage, ‘Preference.’  In Jack Sidnell and Tanya Stivers (eds), Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Boston: Wiley-Blackwell: 210-228.

6. Layout and expression (2 marks)

Please follow these guidelines:

• Please take time to listen to the recording with the transcript a few times before beginning your analysis.
• Write your answers in paragraph form making clear reference to line numbers. You may cut and paste sections of the conversation into your answers as part of your formatting.
• Make sure you provide evidence from the data itself to support your answers to each question.
• When you are asked to ‘account’ for something, consider not only WHAT a person has done, but whether there is evidence to determining WHY they have done it.