When two or more people talk with each other and are familiar they tend to use idioms in their conversations.These are words or phrases which are omitted from a conversation due to a mutual understanding of the topic.For example in my transcript Ibby says to Joseph ‘fat head’, this is because Ibby and Joseph both know what ibby means when he says fat head.This makes the conversation more efficient as ibby did not need to say ‘You have a fat head’.

Throughout the transcript Ibby, lis and Joseph all omit words which are unnecessary as the only decrease the efficiency of the conversation.For example in line 1 ibby says ‘This prick’ instead of Lis. This shows that ibby wants to emphasize that it is lis making an unreasonable statement. He speaks to him informally as they are friends and phrases like that are mutually acceptable.