ENG 5213
Written and Spoken Discourse for ELT
Essay 1 – Spoken Discourse
Name: Yu Wing Kei, Wilson
Student number: 09511301
Introduction
This movie Juno is talking about a 16-year-old high school girl Juno MacGuff is pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend Bleeker. She finally changed her mind of having the abortion, and tried to find a couple who is willing to adopt her baby.
The scenes to be discussed is at the beginning (4’28 – 6’05), when Juno arrives at the Dancing Elk Drug store, she’s going to buy a self pregnancy test device and have the urine test.
Transcription notation:
(pause x sec) : time break between utterance
SILENCIO : words being stressed by the interlocutor
[Action] : non verbal
Well, well : Discourse marker
// : immediate response or interruption
Yea : voice lowered down, in smaller text size
the first one : deixis, pointing word
XXX : can’t hear clearly what the character said
Rollo – the drugstore clerk
Juno – the main charactress
Girl – a girl in the shop
The transcription is shown below:
[Juno entered the drugstore, Rollo look at Juno]
1 Rollo: Well, well. (pause 1.5 sec) If it isn’t MacGuff the Crime Dog! (pause 1sec) Back for
2 another test?
[Juno goes to the shelves and take a pack of pregnancy test device]
3 Juno: I think the first one was defective. The plus sign ((pointing at the device box))
4 looked more like a division symbol. So I remained unconvinced.
[Juno reach the counter, trying to take the lavatory key on the counter]
[Rollo takes the lavatory key, tries not to let Juno uses the lavatory]
5 Rollo: (pause 3 sec)(In a very calm tone) Third time today, Mama Bear. (pause 1 sec) Your
6 eggo is preggo,(pause 1 sec) no doubt about it! //
7 Girl: // It’s really easy to tell. Is your
8 nipples real BROWN?//
9 Rollo: // Yea:, maybe your little boyfriend’s got mutant sperms and
10 knocked you up twice!
11 Juno: SILENCIO OLD MAN. Look I just drank my WEIGHT in Sunny D. And I got to
12 go PRONTO.
[Juno stretch out her right hand and moves her fingers]
[Rollo looks at Juno’s hand, hesitated a bit, but finally hand in the lavatory key]
13 Rollo: Well, you know where the lavatory is.
14 Juno: [silent]
[Juno take the key and head to the lavatory]
15 Rollo: You PAY for that pee stick when you’re done! Don’t think IT’S YOURS JUST
16 BECAUSE YOU’VE MARKED IT WITH YOUR URINE!
[after Juno did the test in the lavatory, she goes to the counter]
17 Rollo: So what’s the prognosis, Fertile Myrtle? Minus or plus?
18 Juno: I don’t know. It’s not seasoned yet. XXX. No (pause 1 s) there it is,(pause 2) The
little pink plus sign, so unholy.
[Juno shakes the device]
[Rollo looks at her action]
19 Rollo: That ain’t no Etch-a-Sketch. (pause 5 sec) This is one doodle that can’t be undid,
20 homeskillet.
21 Juno: [silent]
[Juno looks at Rollo, and looks away, finally leaves the drugstore]
End of transcript.
** Actually some words are in white, as hidden
Reference
1. Script reference from : http://www.scribd.com/doc/2251012/Juno-Script
(but some word are different from the movie)
2. McCarthy, M (2002). Discourse Analysis for language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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