@1 {Descriptive title}
Conversation among five people in a Chinese family after dinner.

@2 {Place,date and length of encounter}
Stockton home; March 30,1987; 20 minutes.

@3 {Participant identities}
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ID     :  A
   SEX :  female
   AGE :  adult
   ROLE:  housewife
   ETHN:  chinese
   DIAL:  chinese (cantonese)
   LOCA:  Stockton home
   OCCU:  parttime factory worker

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ID     :  B
   SEX :  male
   AGE :  adult
   ROLE:  A's husband
   ETHN:  chinese
   DIAL:  chinese (cantonese)
   LOCA:  Stockton home
   OCCU:  grocery store clerk

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ID     :  C
   SEX :  male
   AGE :  adult
   ROLE:  son of A and B
   ETHN:  chinese
   DIAL:  chinese (cantonese)
   LOCA:  Stockton home
   OCCU:  college student

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ID     :  D
   SEX :  female
   AGE :  adult
   ROLE:  daughter of A and B
   ETHN:  chinese
   DIAL:  chinese (cantonese)
   LOCA:  Stockton home
   OCCU:  college student

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ID     :  E
   SEX :  female
   AGE :  adult
   ROLE:  daughter of A and B
   ETHN:  chinese
   DIAL:  chinese (cantonese)
   LOCA:  Stockton home
   OCCU:  college student
 

@4  {Activity}
Informal conversation after dinner: Family members get together
on the weekends.

@5  {Local tasks}
C and D were playing the hi-fi and E was going to cook and wash dishes. 
A and B were walking in and out the kitchen ane living room.  
Topics of the conversation are tape, song, food and many
personal things.

@6  {Conversational features of interest,salient routines}
A was talking to anybody without directly getting his/her attention.
C and D mainly focused on their interests.  
B and E joined everyone's talk. 
Occasionally everyone overlapped and latched with another.

@7  {Stylistic features}
C +command like talk, fast-paced. D +fast-paced.B and E +slow-paced.
A +slow-paced, sometimes satirical tone.

@8  {Anecdotal contextual information}
Both D and E lived in east bay area, they came back to Stockton to 
visit their parents and their brother during the weekends. 
No very central topics, free, casual talk.

@9  {Status of primary and related data}
Audiotape # 118, held in Disclab Archive, 210 T4,
tape lasts:  60 minutes
transcribed:  275 lines
This is a part of a conversation after dinner.
(It's culturally accepted that people should not talk too
much during the dinner.)

@10  {Restrictions on use from speaker's permissions}
No restrictions.

@11 {Abstractor identity}
Speaker E in the conversation.