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ting co-op, or a mother’s group … And this is just a wonderful way to remind mothers that we have what Mary Catherine Bateson calls peripheral vision: the ability to be attentive to multiple demands and to think about more than one thing at a time. And I think that’s a very valuable trait that mothers do have. And sometimes we think of ourselves as being scattered and airheads because of it, and that’s been oftentimes how we’ve been portrayed, but this is a wonderful, wonderful trait that mothers develop especially in the first few years.
I: Well, we have eyes in the backs of our heads, right?
B: Exactly.
I: But we are also able to keep lots of balloons in the air, which means that what we do is, you get up in the morning and you say, “I need to do this, this, this, and I need to go to work, and what’s for dinner besides.”
B: Exactly.
I: You get it all in order before you leave the house in the morning.
B: Right, and you can take your needs into account as well as the needs of many other individuals, which is extremely important in this day and age. I mean we no longer can afford ecologically to have a one-track mind. We can no longer afford it in the family, in the work place, and I think that’s something that women very much have to offer.
I: I think that the “me” generation is over.
日常谈话的特点：在语音方面是缩写词的出现。这种缩写词的出现是一种在很快的发音中通过省略某些音节而把两个单个词连读成为一个词的现象。在本文中有It’s, we’ve, I’ve, that’s, there’s, they’re, doesn’t, I’m等等。这些是经常用到的缩写词。还有一个省略得更多的词是y’know。因为在对话中，许多不重要而又很容易猜出意思的词发音可以一带而过。另一方面，在文中还出现了一方并未说完而另一方就急着接话的情况。这在日常谈话中是时常发生的话语的重叠。这一切都是为了使意思的表达更加迅速明了。
词汇方面日常谈话文体的用词大多简短易懂，很少使用难懂的大词。这是因为谈话人要把绝大部分的精力用于理解和回应对方，不可能在用词上过分花哨，而是尽可能的平实。本文虽然是一个访谈实录，但谈论的仍是大众普遍关心的问题，不可能使用深奥的词汇。综观全文，我们可以发现除了ecologically外，都是通俗易懂的词汇。同时，在面对面的交谈中，常会出现一下子找不到确切的词来表达某一思想，而需要用其它词，或言语重复来填补空白维持对话的现象。例如文中的it’s a tricky… it’s a tricky line…there was very little that … that you could do …that you had … your heart kind of in the right place…
句法结构方面的特点是句子短结构简单。动词词组也很简单。用了不少诸如I think, I mean, well, you know 之类使谈话人显得较为客气谦逊的词语。被动语态很少出现。在时态的应用方面，一般过去时和一般现在时占统治地位。名词词组结构也很简单，没有复杂的前置修饰成分。句子种类主要是陈述句，疑问句，以陈述句为主。这一切都是为了更好地达到沟通这一目的而采取的手段。话语的快速流逝迫使交谈双方用尽可能简单的语言交流，并时时观察对方的反应，对自己的说话进行调整。
语义方面，则是意义上的不确定。主要表现在不完全的语句。例如that there was very little that … that you could do wrong. I mean you …；especially in the early years, and … 这是因为交谈双方可以进行其它方式的交流（例如表情手势等身体语言）来弥补语言的不足。因此不完全表述成了日常谈话文体的一大特色。
(二) 即席解说：范围很广，主要有各种体育比赛的即席解说，还有就是对各种重大事件的解说。以下将以一篇天气预报为例，从语音、词汇、句法结构、语义等方面着手，进行具体分析，并探讨这些因素对英语听力教学的影响。
Announcer: And now over to Marsha Davenport for today’s weather forecast. Marsha?
Weather reporter: Thanks, Peter. Well, as you can see from the weather map, there’s varied weather activity across the United States and Canada today. Let’s start with the west coast, where it’s raining from British Columbia down to northern California. The high in Seattle will be 50 degrees. Southern California will be in better shape today – they’ll have sunny skies and warmer temperatures. We’re looking for a high of 78 degrees in San Diego. The Midwest will be having clear but windy weather. Oklahoma City will see a high of 65 and sunny skies, with very strong winds. Down in Houston we’re looking for cloudy skies and a high of 69. Over to the east in Miami we expect the thermometer to reach 64 degrees, but it’ll be cloudy and quite windy. Up in the northeast, it looks like winter just won’t let go! New York City will be having another day of heavy rains, high winds, and cold tempe