1.2.4 Having a Go
Let’s have another look at Extract 1, focusing here on the way the views expressed at lines 9-20 are designed or packaged and how that works to produce the actions you identified at the start.
Before we continue, however, it’s worth noting that often when you start to look at the details of how things are said, you find you need to revise your initial thoughts on what actions are being done.
With this in mind, here’s the extract again.
.Text 1
.Buttny in Van den Berg et al (2003:108)
.Buttny in Van den Berg et al (2003:108)
1. At line 9, the speaker begins to account for why the Maori ‘never get the jobs’.
2. Note that R begins saying ‘okay that argument gets put in that’. Does this imply that the views she goes on to express are:
a. His or her own
b. General ones, not attributed to any specific person or group?
3. Is the account of what happens when ‘they’ turn up for an interview:
a. a hypothetical or ‘scripted’ account
b. a description of a specific incident
Note
Edwards describes scripted formulations or descriptions as those that suggest the routine or ‘generally happens’ status of some activity
Explain why this might be significant here.
4. Consider how each of the following contributes to the account of job discrimination:
• ‘you look’ (line 10)
• ‘ya know what I mean’ (line 15)
• ‘they want someone’
• reported speech (lines 16-17)
5. How does the reported speech/three-part list (lines 13 & 15) help build an account of Maori dispositions? What does this do in the context of this account of why Maori don’t get jobs?
4. Consider how each of the following contributes to the account of job discrimination:
• ‘you look’ (line 10)
• ‘ya know what I mean’ (line 15)
• ‘they want someone’
• reported speech (lines 16-17)
5. How does the reported speech/three-part list (lines 13 & 15) help build an account of Maori dispositions? What does this do in the context of this account of why Maori don’t get jobs?