OConnell-Kowal1994
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | O'Connell-Kowal1994 |
| Author(s) | Daniel C. O'Connell, Sabine Kowal |
| Title | Some Current Transcription Systems For Spoken Discourse: A Critical Analysis |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, IL, Transcription, Jefferson |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Journal | Pragmatics |
| Volume | 4 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 81-107 |
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Abstract
In recent decades, a rather disparate array of transcription systems, all alike intended to make the transient reality of spoken discourse accessible to the eyes of researchers, have found their way into the literature of several related fields of research, including linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and ethnomethodology. Until recently, the usefulness and adequacy of these various transcription systems have been largely taken for granted, but in the past several years they have begun to attract attention to themselves as sources of research problems in their own right rather than as practical intermediate steps toward making data accessible. In the following, we first present the various criteria required by the authors of these systems if they are to be used effectively and adequately. We then review in detail the use of one specific sign for the notation of oral communicative behavior. For this review we have chosen the sign "h" (or, in some cases, "H") because in the various transcription systems, it is the one sign that happens to be used to represent in one way or another all four aspects of oral communicative behavior verbal, prosodic, paralinguistic, and extralinguistic (...). The primary use, however, is paralinguistic. In a third step we analyze various aspect of "h" in view of its usefulness and adequacy as a sign for the transcription of spoken discourse. And finally we derive conclusions from our review and analyse for the further development of transcription systems.
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