FEATURES OF CONVERSATIONS

1. Inexplicitness of expressions

2. Randomness of subject and lack of planning

3. Extreme informality

4. Normal non- fluency

The Basic Notions of Conversational Analysis applicable in Drama

1. Turn taking

The starting point is the observation that conversation involves turn-taking and that the
end of one speakers turn and the beginning of the next latch on to each other with almost
perfect precision.

2. Adjacency Pairs

This refers to certain classes of utterances in conversations that conventionally come in pairs.

3. Insertion sequences

An insertion sequence is a sequence of turns that intervenes between the first and
second parts of an adjacency pair.

4. Preferred and dispreferred responses

An inferential aspect of adjacency pairs stems from the fact that certain first pair parts
make alternative actions relevant in second position.

5. Repair

Repair is a generic term used in CA to cover a wide range of phenomena, from ---
seeming errors in turntaking, such as overlapping talk, to any of the forms of what is commonly
called corrections that is, substantive faults in the contents of what someone has said.