1. EleanorChin
CHIN 490 ConversationAnalysis
Final Project:TopicManagement
April 28, 2016
Time: 0:351
Levi: <These are> things that they have us write our order on.2
Enzo: Oh:::. Interesting.3
Levi: Yeah. They don’t do this for most customers, but when we come in with seventy or4
eighty people, they’re like “Here. Just give it to use and we’ll make the food.” Hehehe. We5
have a good relationship with them.6
Eleanor: (nodding) That’s good.7
Levi: It’s fo:od. There’s pep-there’s peop-le you always want to have good relationships with.8
Cooks, haircutters, doctors, dentists—you never want any of them to have a bad relationship9
with you.10
Ted: How about lawyers?11
Levi: Well, you can live without ever getting involved with lawyers. Pretty much. Now if you::12
make an enemy of a lawyer? That’s a problem. So if you just kinda don’t—if you just make13
friends with them, that’s fine. It’s good to have friends who are lawyers. But I’m saying like a14
dentist? You never want to make a dentist angry. Ever.15
Ted: How about a police? Public servants?16
Levi: Ah, that’s a good one too. But it-it’s not—i::t’s less painful. I mean like a dentist. What17
can a dentist do, you know, if you make him mad? Vroooooo! Uhhll. (shudder)18
Eleanor: Do you speak from experience? (smiling)19
Levi: No, but I told them—I told them to knock me out when they took out my wisdom teeth,20
and they says “Oh, ah, you’re afraid of needles?” And I says “No it’s for your sake not mine.”21
Levi: (to Ted, who poured him some tea) Oh, xie xie.22
Eleanor: (to Levi) Huh? Oh, I got it.23
Levi: It’s a needle. It’s steel. I took fencing in college, with steel (.) my natural instinct is to24
parry recourse!25
Eleanor: Yeah. (.) [Okay.26
Ted: [And another one is ah:: always treat the:: receptionists nice27
Levi: Yes.28

2. EleanorChin
CHIN 490 ConversationAnalysis
Final Project:TopicManagement
April 28, 2016
Ted: Because they are the ones who know everything about…29
Levi: Hehe, yeah! That’s right! Hehe, ha ha ha! Yeah, you make the receptionist mad, you go30
in for a cold and she’ll send you to surgery! Ha ha ha! (mocking) “Ahh! I didn’t sign up for31
this!”32
Time: 2:3333
Ted: (grinning) It might be even worse!34
Levi: Yeah!35
Ted: And also the janitor.36
Levi: The janitor? Yeah,37
Ted: Like the janitor know everything going on about the building.38
Levi: That’s right.39
Ted: I make sure I make friends with the janitor, because I think the best thing is, the janitor40
has a key to every room.41
Levi: Oh:::: So what are you confessing to us then?42
Ted: No, nothing!43
Levi: Oh, nothing! You don’t use every cool. Key44
Ted: Yeah, no I don’t use it, nobody can use it.45
Levi: Yes, but he lets you in to the rooms.46
Ted: (grinning, protesting) I’m just say::ing!47
Levi: Hehehe, oh, yeah.48
Ted: If you are locked out and forget your key, that’s (unintelligible)49
Levi: Oh, okay, yeah, that’s true.50
End: 3:2051
(pause)52
Time:3:2253

3. EleanorChin
CHIN 490 ConversationAnalysis
Final Project:TopicManagement
April 28, 2016
Levi: Are you <cryingor laughing?>54
Morgane: Hehehe,laughing,hehehe55
Levi: Hehehe ‘Cause all Isawwas justkindof this (imitatinggesture) andIthought,uh-oh.56
Levi: You’re not that tired,are you?57
Morgane: Yeah:: hhhhh. <We’re bothtired.> I thinkit’sbecause…we did(.) toomuchthingsfor58
springbreak.59
Ulises: I don’tagree.60
Morgane: No…61
Levi: What didyou dofor springbreak?62
Morgane: Ahm,we wentto San Diego fromFridaytoMonday, and thenwe went to<Vegas,Grand63
Canyon,BigBear Lake,>and all that…<Monday to Thursday>night!,andYosemite fromFridayto64
now…so…we partieda lotin Vegas, hehe, didn’treallysleep.65
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