Callum: Junior talk about your job in the co-op
Junior: I work at the cooperative in Bath (.) what else am I suppose to say?
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Junior: Well I have to (.) when there is a delivery I have to put stock out on the shelves (.) you have to do this thing called stock rotation this is when all the new stock you have to move all the old stuff to the front and all the new stuff to the back to make sure the sell by date doesn't run out before it is sold
In this conversation I did not take control of the conversation as suggested in Zimmerman and wests dominance model, this can be backed up by my tag question in my first bit of speech it could be interpreted as me looking for guidance on what else to say. However once the topic of the conversation was set I began to confidently speak about my job and what I do, when speaking I was being straight to the point informing only about my job and what has to be done,
This is brief. You could look at the repairs and the complexity of your description when prompted to take a more substantial turn (what worked to get you to give details?). Check how a tag question is formed grammatically as this is an interrogative not a declarative plus a tag. What about your use of jargon/occupational register?
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