Roberts2012

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Roberts2012
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Roberts2012
Author(s) Felicia Roberts
Title Transcribing and transcription
Editor(s) Wolfgang Donbach
Tag(s) Language and Social Interaction, Linguistics, EMCA, Transcription
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Year 2012
Language
City Oxford/Malden, MA
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 5161–5165
URL Link
DOI 10.1002/9781405186407.wbiect056.pub2
ISBN 9781405186407
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title The International Encyclopedia of Communication
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Abstract

Transcribing is the process of representing, in written form, some stretch of lived activity. The resulting transcription provides a document that is easily perused and examined, and in a variety of institutional settings it serves as the official record of the actual proceedings. Such governmental and commercial transcripts are generally perceived as impersonal or unbiased renderings and are intended primarily as references to activity. In communication research, however, it is understood that transcribing is an analytic process, since, in actuality, a transcriber is always selecting and distilling the complexities of speech and action. Or, in the case of rendering original handwritten documents, the researcher loses the artistry of the hand that produced the original document. Transcripts are, therefore, abstract versions of verbal, vocal, bodily, and spatial activities; they embody the transcriber's stance toward the aims of recording and studying a communication event.

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