BNC Text KNT

2 conversations recorded by `715' (PS4XW) [dates unknown] with 4 interlocutors, totalling 44 s-units, 291 words, and 2 minutes 31 seconds of recordings.


5 speakers recorded by respondent number 715

KNTPS000 X u (No name, age unknown) role unspecified
PS4XW Ag0 m (No name, age 13, student)
PS4XX Ag0 f (Sarah, age 13, student) friend
KNTPSUNK (respondent W0000) X u (Unknown speaker, age unknown) other
KNTPSUGP (respondent W000M) X u (Group of unknown speakers, age unknown) other

2 recordings

  1. Tape 137101 recorded on unknown date. LocationGreater London () Activity: Unspecified
  2. Tape 137102 recorded on unknown date. LocationGreater London () Activity: Unspecified

1 (Tape 137101)

Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [1] Really who?
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [2] Assembly can be quite good
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [...]
None (PS4XW) [3] Oh, girls.
Sarah (PS4XX) [4] yes
None (PS4XW) [5] Girls, [...] and know, and I'm only joking.
[6] Er, how do you know?
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [7] Are Jan and Josie in here?
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [8] And, and you see, do you remember when I had asthma and went back in, oh from erm, you know er, oh, [...] teabag.
None (PS4XW) [9] Chris?
None (KNTPS000) [10] [...] , mum's mirror, she said when you're eighteen, you could have it
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [11] I thought she was married.
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [12] My asthma, my asthma, you better go with him, have you got your inhaler?
[13] Have you got in the house, oh, did you,
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [14] Will you get in the back of the car.
None (PS4XW) [15] yes
None (PS4XW) [16] Indigestion so I can't hear you.
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [17] O K, and it's lovely [...]
Group of unknown speakers (KNTPSUGP) [...]
None (PS4XW) [18] No, now I can hear you, because they're over there, and they're shouting.
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [19] Stop shouting.
None (PS4XW) [20] No go on.
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [...]
None (PS4XW) [21] Who, who's come back from Malta.
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [22] Laura
None (PS4XW) [23] Bagelle?
[24] Oh, who's with you on the bench.
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [25] Yes
None (PS4XW) [26] [...] Which means.
Group of unknown speakers (KNTPSUGP) [shouting] [...] []
None (PS4XW) [27] If you say all that sneeze, and I make myself sneeze, I don't think
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [28] Assuming you don't, I mean make yourself sneeze, and you don't
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [29] [...] like I've just said, I've just been speaking for a whole lesson, my voice is just [...] I've got to talk to you to explain what we're doing, so let's quietly [...]
Group of unknown speakers (KNTPSUGP) [...]
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [30] I'll get it, I'll get it.
Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [31] That's O K, it's O K, really,
Group of unknown speakers (KNTPSUGP) [...]
None (PS4XW) [32] She said there, she pointed to it, I should know.

2 (Tape 137102)

Unknown speaker (KNTPSUNK) [33] No, I said why?
Sarah (PS4XX) [34] No, but
None (PS4XW) [35] No, I said why, and I don't see that we're all alright?
Sarah (PS4XX) [36] But she could come along.
None (PS4XW) [37] We changed at [...] Abbot
Sarah (PS4XX) [...]
None (PS4XW) [38] yes,
Sarah (PS4XX) [39] [...] excuse me,
None (PS4XW) [40] Are you going?
Sarah (PS4XX) [41] Excuse me please.
None (PS4XW) [42] Erm, could you wait for him here, [...] erm, who are you working with on computer?
Sarah (PS4XX) [43] I don't know yet.
None (PS4XW) [44] Oh, see if anyone wants to work with me today.