Mondada2025b
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Mondada2025b |
| Author(s) | Lorenza Mondada |
| Title | Transcription |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Transcription |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 248–257 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-24 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 21 |
Abstract
Transcription has become a fingerprint of the conversation analytic approach to the fine-grained details to be recognised and exploited analytically in the data. This chapter explores different perspectives on transcription within Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA). It insists first and foremost on the fact that transcribing is a practice, that lies at the core of the scientific elaboration, rendering and transformation of the recorded materials on which the analysis is focusing. As such it is a situated and embodied activity, engaging the entire body of the transcriber(s), as well as her senses. It is also a technologically-supported and technologically-enhanced practice. After having highlighted this fundamental aspect, the paper shows further aspects characterising transcription, such as the challenge of representing labile, fleeting, and moving temporalities, the choice and consequences of conventions, and their consequences for possible analyses enabled by the transcripts as well as for viewing transcripts as resources providing for evidences for the analysis. Elements of the history of transcription in EMCA are included in the chapter, as well as examples from the literature.
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