Natural Interaction and Institutional talk. The interaction of an English language TV talk show compared with naturally occurring conversation

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Baghdad, language: English, abstract: TV talk shows are among the most common media programs worldwide as it keeps up to date with events that take place in the world and deals with them politically, socially and economically. Transcripts of TV talk show are written records of naturally occurring conversation which represents a challenging source of authentic language learning material if they can be shown to be structurally accurate.

This book introduces an analysis that compares the interaction of an English language TV talk show with that of naturally occurring conversation. The analysis highlights the degree of similarity and differences within the limits of the turn taking, adjacency pairs, preference organization, pre-sequence and closing sequence systems of conversation.