Learner resource 10
1. Renton’s opening speech in the film ‘Trainspotting’
[MUSIC PLAYS THROUGHOUT …IGGY POP’S ‘LUST FOR LIFE]
Chose life(1) choose a job(1) choose(2) a career(.) choose a family(.) choose a fucking big television(.) choose washing machines(.) cars(.) compact disc players and electrical tin openers( 10)
[SCREECH OF CAR BRAKES (2) INAUDIBLE LAUGHTER]
Choose good health(.) low cholesterol, and dental insurance. (2) choose fixed interest mortgage repayments (1) choose a starter home (1) choose your friends(4)
{MUSIC]
Choose leisurewear and matching luggage(1) choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics(1) choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning(1) choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit crushing game shows(.) stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth(10)
[MUSIC]
Chooserotting away at the end of it all(.) pishing your last in a miserable home(.) nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself (2)choose your future(1) choose life
Key
(.) micropause
(2) TIMED PAUSE
[BACKGROUND SOUNDS]
Choose -stressed
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This taken from the May 2013 F651 (OCR) question paper – it is Question 4.
This is a transcript of a conversation between two women in their early twenties.
How do the two speakers use language here to show they understand each other ?
Support your answer by referring to specific examples from the transcription [30]
Nikki: my dads bought me a sunbed (laughs)
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Anoushka: has/l:/ (1) for the (.) the house
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Nikki: (laughs) i know
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Anoushka: for the house
Nikki: yeah i know
Anoushka: that is just WRONG
Nikki: its NOT (.) well (.) hes not even bought it (.) its like the couple next door (.) yeah (.)
theyre getting rid of their old one (.)cause it was like faulty (.)so they bought a new one
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Anoushka: (laughs)
Nikki: and they were throwing out the old one out (.) so mer dad said(.) aww (.) I ll have that
(1) (laughs) and er (.) it makes him stripey (.) but its
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Anoushka:cos its faulty
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Nikki: uh huh(.) but its like a proper
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Anoushka: BUT ITS FAULTY
Nikki: yeah (.) but its like (.) a proper like lie in and pull the lid down job (1) do like a proper like
(.) sunbed (2) but it just makes him stripey (laughs)
Anoushka: why does he want a (.) sunbed anyway
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Nikki: I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA (laughs)
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Anoushka: it’s a bit vain isn’t it (laughs)
Nikki: im goin (.) DAD (.) who are you foolin (laughs) and Im goin (.) its really bad for you (.) and
hes goin (.) ohh err (.0 its not that bad for you (.) and Im goin (.) err (.) well (.) worse for
you than cigarettes (.) I would say (laughs)
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Anoushka: its something like (.) emm (.) if you go less than four times a year
(.) its not meant to have(.) like (.) a too negative
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Nikki:mmn hmm
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Anoushka:like (.) effect on (.) er (.) but any
more than its meant to be really
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Nikki: I just don’t like the idea of like (.) heres a box (.) get in it (.) and
we going to stew (.) yer (.) with ultra violet light
Anoushka: but I think
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Nikki: and (.) er / its
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Anoushka: but I think id like one the em SAD boxes (.) I think that would be
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Nikki: the(.) like (.)
seasonal affective disorder jobs
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Anoushka:yeah (.) I think that would be quite nice
Nikki: yeah yeah (.) thatd be nice (2) but when weve got that wallpaper 91) like my little brother
told us about (1) the stuff where it’s the ambient lighting and its like wallpaper
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Anoushka: yeah (.) we could
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Nikki:then it
could be sunny all the time
Transcription key:
(1) = pause in seconds
(.) = micro pause
Underlined = stressed sound/syllables
(italics)=paralinguistic feature
// = speech overlap
UPPER CASE = increased volume
= rising intonation
= falling intonation
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