Notes/Analysis of Sample Transcript

Last Thursday in class, we read, discussed, and took notes on an example of text for discourse analysis.  This was an interview done by Dr. Chandler with one of her former students named Lorena, who just completed her freshman year of college.  As she interviewed Lorena, Dr. Chandler was sitting down and taking notes.  This example we discussed in class was also considered oral history, meaning it is a literary narrative, in which a person talks about his or her life.  After certain parts of the interview, there were parentheses that showed certain emotions that Lorena might have been feeling throughout the interview with Dr. Chandler. (e.g. matter of factly)  There are also numbers, but I don’t really remember what these numbers represent.  It was noted that the second time that Lorena said “I passed it” (referring to the ESL test), she was much more positive than she may have been at first. 

There were also a few things that I wrote down when we were split into groups to discuss the sample transcript.  When my classmate and I analyzed the interview, one thing that we noticed was that there were 86 total pronouns in the interview.  We also noticed that Lorena had told 7 stories and showed 4 emotions.  These are the notes and analyses that I had taken last week in class on the example of discourse analysis.