Discourse

p/s: the arrows indicate intonations. ^^

okay.. what is discourse? discourse involves interaction. According to Answer.com, discourse is:
"Verbal expression in speech or writing.
Verbal exchange; conversation.
A formal, lengthy discussion of a subject, either written or spoken.
Archaic. The process or power of reasoning."

in the spoken discourse lecture, we are going to learn to analyse conversation. and that involves a lot of prosodic symbols! (don't ask me what that is, i just know that the symbols are needed to mark the breaks and intonations.. and that kinda thing. xD

so basically this is what i did.

we recorded our own conversation, and try to analyse it.

the one i did is a basic one.. but then... it's quite interesting to know that we can actually analyse our conversation this way. haha

truly interesting.

and so above is a sample of what i did. ^^

i tried my best. hope i got it right... coz honestly. i do not know if i really did get a hang of how to analyse conversations.