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.