Discourse analysis

Binominals- are expressions as a sub- category of FIXED EXPRESSIONS e.g. sick and span; ups and downs; swings and roundabouts; cash and carry; hit and miss. These expressions occur in both written and spoken languages but mostly in spoken English. There are also exist TRINOMIALS e.g. ready, willing and able; this , that and the others; morning noon and night, but they are much rare than binominals
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- female
< S02> female
< S 03> - female
All three are art college students.
1 Does anyone want to a chocolate bar or anything?
2 Oh yeah yes please
3 Yes please
4 [laughs]
5 [laughs]
6 You can have either a Mars Bar, Kit-Kat or erm cherry Bakewell
7 Oh erm it’s a toss-up between [ [laughs]] the cherry
8 Bakewell and the Mars Bar isn’t it?
9 Well shall I bring some in then cos you might
10 want another one coz I don’t want them all, I’m gonna be
11 Miss paranoid about weight aren’t you?
12 Yes but you know
13 You’re not fat Mand
14 I will be if I’m not careful
15 Oh God
16 I ate almost a whole jar of raisins this weekend [
17 [laughs]]
18 my Mum gave me all this
19 Look at her, look
20 She goes oh [inaudible]
21 What was that about, you said about you and your Mum don’t get on
22 [ [laughs]] I’d say you got on all right with that big wodge of
23 food there
24 We can relate to chocolate… I think they’re the little ones
25 actually so you can have one of them and one of them if you like
27 They do don’t they?
28 Oh they were … gorgeous … did you say you’d like a cup of tea?
29 Yes
30 All right then
31 Sound like a right mother don’t I?
32 You do
33 But they would go smashing with a cup of tea wouldn’t they?
34 They would yeah
35 Cup of tea and a fag
36 Cup of tea and a fag Misses, we’re gonna have to move the table I
37 think
38 Yeah d’you like Sarah’s table she’s constructed of erm boots and and
39 a book?
40 Oh that’s brilliant
41 Eh that’s really good there look
42 and it’s got the Milky Way wrapper as that little extra support
43 I like Sunday night for some reason, I don’t know why
44 [laught] coz you come home
45 I come home
46 You come home to us
47 and pig out
48 Yeah yeah
49 Sunday’s really nice day I think
50 It certainly is
51 It’s a really nice relaxing day
52 It’s an earring, it’s an earring
53 Oh lovely oh, lovely
54 It’s fallen apart a bit but
55 It’s quite a nice one actually, I like that, I bet, is that supposed to be
56 straight?
57 Yeah
58 Oh I think it looks better like that
59 And there was another bit as well, another dangly bit
60 What, attached to
61 The top bit
62 That one
63 Yeah … so it was even
64 Mobile earrings
65 What that looks better like that, it looks better like that
66 Oh what did I see, what I did I see, stained glass, there was, I went to a
craft fair [ mm] erm in Cambridge and erm I know, I went to
a craft fair in Cambridge and they had erm this stained glass stall and
it was all mobiles made out of stained glass [ ah wow] and
they were superb they were, and mirrors with all different colors,
like going round in the color, color-wheel but all different sized bits
of colored glass on it [ Oh nice] it was superb, massive.