In the beginning you hear all kinds of noise and everyone talking in the background this is because everyone is just about to settle down and eat dinner.
1 Greg: Where's Lance? Where he stay?
2 Paul: In the back. (Pointing in the back of the house)
Silence for about 10 seconds. About ready to change subject.
3 Paul: Mommy can eat that too. Wait, this, that's all. What about... What's that stuff. Who eat that. You guys eat um all. (Looking at pot).
4 Rich: You gotta eat the cabbage too. (Putting the cabbage on the plate)
5 Paul: I know.
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6 Rich: Go bring the cabbage from the ice box. Tell him he better come eat.
Silence for about 10 seconds. Subject about to change.
7 Greg: Call Lance.
8 Paul: Lance, Lance come out here!
Silence for about 20 seconds. Brother begins to sing.
9 Greg: Paul, you know for your aquarium get fishfood by the telephone at work.
Silence for about 5 seconds. An argument is about to start. Father mad.
10 Rich: Why you neva tell me first time? I told you I was going Long's Yah, I told you if you wanted something. You neva did mention nothing.
11 Greg: I doubt it!
12 Paul: Is Ronald working today? Heh? That's good.
13 Rich: I told you.
14 Paul: Huh?
15 Rich: I told you if you need something I was going Longs. If you wanted something you neva say so, so I figure you neva need anything
16 Greg: I neva hear that's why
17 Paul: Yeh! He neva hear. Mom, no buss up the teapot, man.
Silence for about 5 seconds. Subject about to change. (Talking in the background)
18 Rich: Give me the Jewlcor da kine, yeah.
19 Paul: Teapot, you going get one teapot,
20 Greg: What?
21 Rich: Teapot.
22 Greg: Teapot
Silence 25 seconds. Rich looking inside the catalog. (Talking in background)
23 Paul: Yeah. Dad, you know back power? Had stuff you know.
24 Rich: I don't care, but you better keep your rabbit food good.
25 Paul: But you gotta cross the log. But if you fall off one side, well that's it you gotta swim in.
26 Rich: The thing going bite the damn thing. Put it in the container.
27 Paul: If you fall down, fall on the outside, on this side. So you can jump on the rock and get you. If you fall on the other side than we gotta jump in after you.
Silence. Brother still continues to talk about his fishing trip.
Only once we hit the rock. We was boxing and you gotta go like that, when you go too on the outside, you go like dat.
Get the...right.
Silence for about 20 seconds. Subject to change back to the fish food.
28 Rich: I going pick up the can.
29 Mich: Hah?
30 Paul: By Gallery Man or Hauoli?
31 Greg: On the inside.
32 Paul: By the phone?
33 Greg: Yah! By the phone.
34 Paul: By the ribbon?
35 Greg: No! Right on the counter, by the phone Pause-Go tell somebody go look for um.
36 Bea: No, you don't go behind there.
37 Greg: You can tell Ronald, Ronald get um, If not Steve go get um.
38 Rich: If not Thomas working? He call you up? Heh? After the time he came, he neva call you up? What's the matter? What happened? How come he came so much on the first day?
(Pause) Mumbling in the background
39 Bea: You mean you neva see him since that day?
40 Paul: I saw him in Long's.
41 Bea: He went back to work?
42 Paul: I saw him walking in Long's Drugs.
43 Bea: I told Mrs. Doo, "You guys store exciting, eh?" She said, "Ha".Exciting ah the other night you guys? She said, "That's nothing as long as you not on one airplane. Don't know what she was talking about but I guess she meant a bomb on an airplane, I guess. That's the only thing I could figure she was talking about.
44 Rich: She hard of hearing?
45 Greg: She wear one wig.
46 Rich: She still come around? Not as much as before? Use to stay around every time.
(Pause) About to change subject. Two other people talking in background)
47 Rich: Who's taking Mr. Loo's place?
48 Greg: Nobody. (Has a kind of aggravated look on his face)
49 Rich: They going hire somebody?
50 Greg: They don't hire shit! Mr. Loo quit, Thomas no stay, Clyde went quit, never hire nobody yet.
51 Bea: Really?
52 Rich: Who is Clyde? The other young guy Where he went; work someplace else?
53 Greg: Payless.
54 Rich: Payless?
55 Greg: No not Payless, Bigway.
56 Mich: He doing accounting work for them. More in his field.
57 Rich: University guy?
58 Greg: No Leeward.
59 Rich: Where he grad from?
60 Greg: Leeward. (In a mad tone of voice because he had to repeat)
61 Rich: Look for the kind councilman job. You grad University and you go put in for councilman assistance job. Easy life. What the hell you get paid 27 grand. You just take telephone calls and write speech for him. What the hell so hard about it?
62 Greg: Eh. Like I right good English in the first place.
63 Rich: What the hell! He saying that (stuttering) I tell you something. Just part time job guy; they like pay him twelve thousand a year. You know how much that? Thousand dollars a month. Pause. And you know councilman job, they don't work all year around and they pay thousand a month. And on top of that, if you go on the regular one, Twenty thousand; two thousand a month. You answer telephone, you look up law book reference, all that kind of stuff, write speech.
64 Bea: I hate to tell you dad but you need degree for that.
65 Rich: I know that is why I tell him go university.
66 Greg: Public Affairs kind?
Everybody starts talking at one time, cannot make out what they are saying.
67 Mich: So long as business ad; so long as you get college degree you get chance to get in.
68 Rich: Clinton Tamamura, legislator auditor, he never take up accounting when he went University. Yet today he's the legislator auditor, they call him.
Brother in the background says, "Oh no!". Playing around
69 Mich: What was he taking up?
70 Rich: Research something he went into. University...analysis or something. After that he went auditor and work his way through.
Brother tries to talk to father.
71 Paul: Eh Dad, Dad! You know eh. eh, that eh?
72 Rich: It's a political position but if Governor Arioshi, maybe one new Governor no like him, maybe they just going take him out.
Everyone talking together again, brother trying to get father's attention.
73 Rich: What I'm saying to you (pause) is do your best and trot along.
74 Greg: When you going get me the kine, the other job in TIM?
Mother talking to another person in the background.
75 Rich: No, first wait till you available for it. You cannot make anykind appointment now.
76 Greg: Eh man, you gotta hurry up.
77 Mich: You just cannot go, yet You got to start your management and marketing. You cannot start your thing at my gig.
78 Rich: No sense you do um now.
79 Mich: Vera went to talk to the teacher. They say that she doesn't have enough background. You got to write a research paper.
Brother cuts in and say, "Eh Dad". Father replies "Yeah, yeah".
80 Mich: She doesn't have the background. She got to take management and marketing and more TIM courses before she can start.
Two conversations are going on at one time.
81 Mich: That's why you got to get over your core during the summer.
82 Paul: Mom, Mom! Tomorrow get volleyball game.
83 Greg: What about accounting?
84 Bea: Who?
85 Paul: Manana.
86 Mich: Accounting not to much, you need the management stuff.
87 Bea: Manana school.
88 Mich: Take management summer. You know who get first preference in management? You know who go for it first? The Seniors!
89 Paul: That's why I got to tell dad to sign, so I can go walk with my friend.
90 Mich: That's why you got to try and make up during night school or summer school. If I can't get it summer time, I going night school, summer time.
Father talking to brother in the background.
91 Rich: You just trot along, get your degree and after you get your degree you can do whatever you want. You want to join the Air Force, you go join the Air Force. I don't care.
Two people talking one time.
92 Mich: Because Greg there's prerequisite.
93 Rich: But the truth is in the Army or Air Force, you going need one degree pretty soon, because they going hire professional. They want people who get education. They not going hire any Tom, Dick or Harry. You just wait. Now they just taking anybody because they have to fill the ranks. Eventually the time going come when no have a job on the outside people going join the army. But when the time come, going be so competitive, that in the army itself you have to get a degree.
Mich and Paul talk together.
94 Rich: It's getting to a point where even laborers pretty soon need a degree to get in the labor field. I don't know?
95 Bea: I told you the GS four job. How low can you get? Any lower than a three or four. This girl has a degree.
Pause.
96 Rich: Even for a GS four, a lonely job. If you have a college degree you go into a internship with a seven. You go as a trainee seven, okay. And then space available, the next grade you go up is a GS nine, okay.
sister cuts in
97 Mich: Really easy Greg. You don't have to work ten years.
98 Rich: The kind auditor daddy get now, way younger than daddy and they GS elevens today. They audit supply records. They go University, get a degree and apply, put degree in they get the job. They put they got a degree in accounting, business ad. Have more chance than me applying for the job.
99 Bea: Now everything, they want a college degree.
100 Rich: You know auditing, triple A, AAA, people who go in that line need a college degree now to go in. Before they just hire anybody.
101 Bea: That's only to train and they want you to have a college degree.
102 Rich: That's why I'm telling you guys. Get the education, once you get the education and after you get the degree; I don't care what you be.
This is the end of the taped dialogue
A) The Analysis of Topic
1) A list of the topics exchanged
A) Where's Lance
B) About the food
C) About Fishfood
D) About going to Longs
E) Going to buy a new teapot
F) Fishing trip
G) Rabbit food
H) About work
H1) Mrs. Doo H2) Clyde
I) About a job
Il) How you need a degree I2) How hard it is to get classes
J) Volleyball game
K) A figure showing how and when one topic leads into another
1) Explanation to why the topics were talked about
A) The topic about where Lance was, is brought about because everyone else was sitting at the dinner table. He was the only one in the family who was not.
B) The topic about the food was brought up because Paul doesn't really like to eat cabbage. My parents make him eat his vegetables.
C) The topic about the fishfood was talked about because Greg had gone to work the day before and bought some fishfood. At the end of the day I forgot to bring it home, so I was telling Paul to go and pick it up.
D) The topic of going to buy a new teapot was talked about because the old teapot had just broken.
E) The topic about the fishing trip was talked about because Paul likes to go fishing.
F) The topic about the rabbit food was talked about because every time Paul forgets to cover the rabbit food and the next morning there are bugs in it.
G) The topic about work was brought up because just recently three people quit from the place Greg works. The store didn't hire anybody else but the other people have to put in longer hours.
H) The topic about getting a job was talked about because Rich is very concerned, that you get a degree and get a good paying Job.
I) The topic about the volleyball game was talked about because Paul since he's to young not to worry yet about a degree, he has to get into the conversation so he talks about his school's volleyball game.
2) Some general laws about topics in talk, that are derived from my findings
A) Usually when the topic is about to change there is a pause between the the topics.
B) When there are younger people around, like Paul, sometimes throughout the conversation, they will cut in and talk about something that is completely different from the topic that is being talked about.
C) When Paul cuts in like explained above, Rich usually answers him by saying, "Yeah, yeah!".
D) People usually ask a question to someone else, but by the time the other person is ready to answer the question, the person had already answered his or her own question.
E) Usually when a person says, "Da kine or something similar to that, the person being talked to usually can relate ,to what the other person wants.
3) The Analysis of argument
1) A breakdown, in schematic form, of an argument
Move l: (Greg points to Paul) 9
Move 2: (Rich pokes Greg on the side) lO
Move 3: (Greg shakes shoulders, denies it) ll
Move 4: (Rich looks mad) 13
Move 5: (Paul shakes shoulders) 14
Move 6: (Rich pointing to Greg) 15
Move 7: (Greg pointing to his ear) 16
Move 8: (Paul backing up Greg, and changes subject to teapot) 17
2) Abstract patterns for the arguments
Argument type 1 is much like the argument presented above,
A) Most of the arguments are carried on this way throughout my transcript. (Like lines 9-17)
Argument type 2 usually happens when a person is getting scoldings and does not want to pay any attention to the person. It also happens when there are two or more conversations going on and you don't know he's talking to you. (Like in line l)
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