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The discourse structure throughout the text is very variable. For example GG”look the aeroplanes” Evie interrupts by saying “aeroplanes again”. There is no concept of turn taking in this situation one might infer from Piaget’s theory that this is because Evie is not cognitively ready to understand this. The reason for the interruption might be because Evie hasn’t seen an aeroplane before in the sky, but only in books, she is most likely excited hence why she interrupted.

Another example of two people speaking at once within the discourse is GG and G. G” have you got a present for grandma” GG interrupts by saying “a present”. This is an overlap; however it is not by mistake. The reason for this is Evie has picked a flower which is a negative action. But by both G’s saying it’s a present you can infer from Skinners theory that this is positive reinforcement. The grandparents do not want to leave a bad impression of themselves upon Evie so they changed the subject to positive.

The grandparent’s lexis is clearly different because they are around Evie.For example GG”have they gone? Have they gone?” she is trying to keep Evie focused on the aeroplanes by using repetitive language. However when the answer is “it is” she replies “its way up in the sky those aeroplanes two, there’s two” The word sky is recasted for positive reinforcement to help Evie learn and also the lexical choice “two” is repeated the reason for this is to make Evie familiar with how many objects is two by seeing the planes in the sky.

Another example of how Evie has influence the lexis is when GG says “you’re more interested in bloom-bloomin’ stones” GG stuttered this is likely because she was going to use colloquial language such as “bloody”  but die to the presence of  Evie GG opted with a less taboo lexical choice.