Transcript on Video Game

From the transcript I found out firstly that there are four young boys involved playing a video game.

From the transcript we can see that the young boys are intrigued by the game and have been taken over by the thrilling excitement from it. We can see that the boys are intrigued and concentrating hard on the video game due to the length of the pauses they are leaving between talking, the slower pace shows concentration and that they are talking slowly to make sure they are not distracted from the game/ distracting the player from the game.
Also, from the transcript we see a lot of sociolect such as "I got shot by an invisible enemy", "The machine gun", "Light sabre". The boys are using language that would only make sense to someone who knows either the game, or someone who understands that the boys are talking/playing a game.

We see in the transcript imperative verbs such as "throw" and "now" this shows to us how competitive the boys are about the video game and how excited they have become that they get a bossy tone. We can see that the boys are of a close relationship because it is unlikely that you would talk to someone who you are not familiar with in a bossy, authoritative tone, also David laughs over Andrew when he talking, showing comfortableness and informality with one another.

We can see that the boys are quite young due to the words that the boys are using. For example, if the transcript was of a teenage group of boys there may be taboo language in the text and would be ruder, however, at the end of the transcript we see Carl say "ha fatty" this shows his young, immature age and shows to us a lot about their characters when not playing a violent video game.

We see from the transcript the use of pronouns such as "him" a lot, this could be because the young boys are talking about an opponent who they do not know the name of, or a simply talking about a character on the video game who doesn't have a given name.