Geordie Shore – Transcript

 A: Are we gonna see a Geordie wedding this season (.) or coming up

 B: no (0.5) we’re not um I think (.) well (.) um in ooh

C: you lost for words babe

 B: [laughs]

 C: is she feeling alright (.) are you feeling alright

 B: I’m not lost for words I’m just struggling working out / things

 C:  / oh yeah okay

 B: [puts hand over his face] shut up

 C: I can’t believe this like

 B: we don’t have a / wedding

 C:  / got this on camera

 B: no [continues to put her hand on his face]

 C: this never happens

 B:  shut up (0.5) we have sort of like um an engagement party (1) so it’s kinda like in the right direction for a wedding but it’s not a wedding (.) so wu we’re moving [makes hand gesture indicating direction] (.) towards (.) a wedding but we’re still very far away from a wedding (.) stop putting so much pressure on us [buries head in scarf]

 A: I can’t think of anything worse than planning a wedding it must be a lot of / hassle

 B: / I can’t literally cause I’m so dreading the point where I have to do something like that (.) in real life we just had our engagement party like in one for all our friends and all our family /

 C: family that obviously couldn’t get there’ll come on the [mumbles] show / at that point

 B:  / and it was the most stressful time tryna plan it and /

 C: so much planning and so much /organising

B:   / oh yeah Ricci I bet your knackered after all that planning are ya

 C: [laughs]

B: yeah all those decisions ya had to make (.) all those emails ya had to send (.) meetings with the cake maker yeah (1) he did nothing until about a week before where he suddenly got interested and started demanding all sorts of ridiculous things (.) which were just not possible like monkeys carrying trays of drinks

A: [laughs]

B: so Ricci is not gonna be part of planning the wedding as he didn’t plan the engagement party and I’m not planning the wedding until I get a team of people to help us

 

Questions:

1. What is interesting about the language used?

There is a lot of slang used when these two people have a conversation, such as 'gonna' and 'like'. These are sometimes specific to the accent that they have which is Geordie. 

 

2. What theory could you use when analysing the transcript?

I could use the Robin Lakoff theory that analyses the way women speak, because in this transcript I can see that Vicky uses hedges throughout as well as using indirect requests towards Ricci.

 

3.  What could you title an investigation into data like this? (Use the title format of an interrogative e.g. How does… or a declarative e.g. An investigation into…

How true is Robin Lakoff's theory (1975)  to women in this modern world?

 

4.What real data could you collect (rather than just going to You Tube?)

A real life conversation between a woman and man,that was planned or prepared.