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This is three paragraphs on Arbies and Albion’s transcription .

Transcription :

Arbies: Ight, what position are you in the league                                                                                                 Arbies: Lemme jusss bring out the league table, juss look at da table look at da table  look at the table.           Albion: I personally fink yeh (back channeling                                                                                               Albion: No cuz den dey make da points equal now                                                                                      Arbies: Look at the table,look at the table (repetition, emphasis)

Arbies and Albion use a lot of language devices like idioms , omissions and repetition. Words like Ight ,juss,fink and cuz are all idioms . The words have been shorten for efficiency but no a lot have been taken out so you can still understand what they are saying .

Arbies and Albion are friends so they understand each other and know what they are trying to say. Arbies uses a lot of repetition like “juss look at da table look at da table  look at the table. ” This is to force his point across . When Arbies does this he’s forcing Albion to look at proof to back his argument , proof that Arbies knows is solid that why it’s like he’s forcing Albion to look at t because he knows that the has won the argument .

Albion does not say to much to back up his side of the argument because he knows he’s lost and does not have anything else to say he’s trying to back up his argument but because of Arbies’s persistence he cant really say anything else because he knows its pointless .

1 Comment

  1. This is great, Jameel. It shows a clear understanding of the dynamics of the conversation and it also refers to specific linguistic devices to support the premise.

    There are some missing apostrophes. Do you know to use them to denote possession and also to indicate where you’ve contracted a word: “can’t”.

    Also, when you say ‘too much’, the too has two ‘o’s

    Apart from the fragments of mechanical errors, your analysis is genuinely valid. Nice work.

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