With a colleague, and with permission, tape record a conversation. Extract a brief segment from the conversation that you find interesting and transcribe it. Carefully examine the transcript and answer the following questions:

1. How well to the speakers meet the cooperation principle?  What forms of conversational implicature, if any, do they need to achieve this?

2. Divide the excerpt into adjacency pairs. How coherent are second pair parts with first pair parts? When coherence is not apparent on the surface, examine the whole conversation to see if you can tell how the speakers are accomplishing coherence. Come ready to talk to your colleagues about your analyses.

*adapted from Littlejohn (1999).