Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word

This practical handbook aims to clarify the need for and the use of transcription methodology and provides a useful, efficient guide to creating good transcripts for a variety of people using ethnographic methods. Appropriate for varying levels of expertise, it will be an essential tool for transcriptionists, ethnographers, researchers, oral historians, participant observers, and even amateurs who plan to write their family history.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(8)

The Oral and the Written

9

(14)

Background Factors in Transcribing

23

(16)

Creating the Verbatim Transcript

39

(22)

On Editing and Context

61

(22)

The Social Relations of Transcripts

83

(20)

Appendix A Sample Forms

103

(8)

Appendix B Typographic Symbols Used in Notation Systems

111

(10)

Appendix C Samples of Transcripts

121

(6)

References and Further Readings

127

(4)

Index

131

(6)

About the Author

137

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Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word

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