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Thursday 10 January 2013

3 discourse feature by Nimalan and Taufiq

                                                         


00:44-00:52(Ellipsis)
She first asked the spanish guy whether he was in mr brown's class.The guy asked 'i beg your pardon' in spanish.The principal asked again by omitting part of the sentence and he did the same thing.This happened again and again until she omitted it to one word which was 'Brown'

01:20-01:25(Backchannel)
When the principal asked the Singh him, "U",he replied "yes,please"

01:50-02:02(Fronting)
She asked the Singh to tell Mr Brown that she would like to have word with him.The Singh mistook it for something else.She changed the emphasis to 'have a word with him' and placed it to the front by saying,"just say that i want to talk to Mr Brown"


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