Transcript writing practice.                    

An extract from mine and Sami's

Sami: Umm (.) Right (.) in the top left (.) the top left corner (.) Umm (5) Right (.) go down a little bit from the top left then do a diagonal right.

Me: /a diagonal line?

Sami: Yeah but like

Me: /Going up?

Sami: Imagine like (.) a square (.) from the bottom left corner of the square

Me: /Bottom left corner? (eeee)

Sami: Yeah

Me: Nooo (2) Right (.) a diagonal line that goes up?

Sami: Yeah (.) that goes up from the bottom left corner

Me: (ohhh) (3) but does it?

Sami: /Right (.) Just do a diagonal line

Me: does it start at the bottom? (3) Wait (2) does it like take up (.) like the whole page?

Overview
Sami drew a variety of shapes on a piece of paper and then we turned back to back. He had to describe what he had drawn and I had to try and copy it with out looking. Obviously I was also unable to see his body language which made it even harder and added to the frustration and hesitation in our conversation. He decided to draw shapes like stars and crosses which were extremely difficult to describe without saying what they were. Our whole conversation lasted approximately 8 minutes and my picture didn't end up anywhere near similar to his. I think this shows that body language is often important when communicating.

Analysis
Our conversation involved many pauses represented by the '(3)(.)(5).' This was mainly due to Sami thinking about how he was going to explain his picture and me processing the information. This resulted in it taking longer. Being a inpatient character and not understanding what he was describing very clearly, I interrupted on multiple occasions. This is represented by the '/'. The paralinguistic features, shown in the brackets, such as '(eeee)' displays my frustration because I was trying to understand and get my picture right. The question marks don't only represent when I was asking a question but also how the pitch of my voice goes higher. This often happens when I ask a question.