Transcription Resources
Contents
Training resources
- E.A. Schegloff has a Transcription Module on his website: “The transcription module is designed to provide practice in transcribing talk-in-interaction using conversation analytic conventions”.
- An 'introductory online tutorial on CA transcription and analysis, by Charles Antaki
- Notes on transcription by Alexa Hepburn & Jonathan Potter
Specialised Transcription Software
- Transana: software for the transcription of video data; See also CLAN for CA
- Thomas Schmidt & Wilfried Schütte offer the new version 1.1 of their transcript editor FOLKER via the website of the Archives for Spoken German (AGD): http://agd.ids-mannheim.de/html/folker_en.shtml
File formats / tips
- Advice on setting up a WORD document for transcription, by John Heritage (UCLA)
- Transcription in HTML
- Typing transcription in various word processing programs - Paul ten Have
Services
- 2 Professional CA Transcription Services: 1) Christianne Pollock & Hannah Wheat; and 2) Type. For researchers.
Literature on Transcription
see also: Website: "Transcription in Action: Resources for the Representation of Linguistic Interaction", mainained by Mary Bucholtz
Ashmore, Malcom., Darren Reed (2000) ‘Innocence and nostalgia in conversation analysis: The dynamic relations of tape and transcript.’ Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1 (3). Available at:
http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00ashmorereed-e.htm
Bonu, Bruno, coord. (2002) Transcrire l’interaction. cahiers de praxématique 39: 1-159
Bucholtz, Mary (2007) ‘Variation in transcription’, Discourse Studies 9: 784-808
Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth; Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (2011) ‘A system for transcribing talk-in-interaction: GAT 2’, Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 12: 1-51 [1]
Duranti, Alessandro (2007) ‘Transcripts, like shadows on a wall’, Mind, Culture, and Activity13(4): 301–10.
Goodwin, Charles (1994) ‘Recording human interaction in natural settings’, Pragmatics 3: 181-209
Duranti, Alessandro (1997) ‘Transcription: from writing to digitized images’. in his: Linguistic anthropology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 122-61
Edwards, J.A., & M.D. Lampert, eds (1993) Talking data: transcription and coding in discourse research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Have, Paul ten (2002) ‘Reflections on transcription’ cahiers de praxématique 39: 21-43 [text in PDF]
Hepburn, Alexa (2004) ‘Crying: Notes on Description, Transcription, and Interaction’, Research on Language & Social Interaction 37:251-91
Hepburn, Alexa; Galina B. Bolden (2012) ‘The conversation analytic approach to transcription’. In: Jack Sidnell, Tanya Stivers, eds. The Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Wiley-Blackwell: 57-76
Jefferson, Gail (1985) ‘An exercise in the transcription and analysis of laughter’. In: Dijk, T.A. van, Handbook of discourse analysis. London: Academic Press, Vol. 3: 25-34
Jefferson, Gail (1989) ‘Preliminary notes on a possible metric which provides for a ’standard maximum’ silence of approximately one second in conversation’. In: Roger, D., P. Bull, eds., Conversation: an interdisciplinary perspective. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters: 166-96
Jefferson, Gail (1996) ‘A case of transcriptional stereotyping’, Journal of Pragmatics 26: 159-70
Jefferson, Gail (2004) ‘Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction’. In: Gene H. Lerner, ed. Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 13-31
Laurier, Eric. (2014) The Graphic Transcript: Poaching comic book grammar for inscribing the visual, spatial and temporal aspects of action. Geography Compass, 8/4: 235-248
MacWhinney, Brian; Johannes Wagner (2010) ‘Transcribing, searching and data sharing: The CLAN software and the TalkBank data repository’, Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 11: 154-173 (www.gespraechsforschung-ozs.de)
Mondada, Lorenza (2007) ‘Commentary: transcript variations and the indexicality of transcribing practices’, Discourse Studies 9: 809-821
Ochs, Elinor (1979) ‘Transcription as theory’. In: E. Ochs and B.B. Schiefelin, eds. Developmental Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press: 43-72
O’Connell, D.C., & S. Kowal (1994) ‘Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: a critical analysis’, Pragmatics 4: 81–107
Psathas, George, Tim Anderson (1990) ‘The “practices” of transcription in conversation analysis’, Semiotica 78 (1990): 75-99
Traverso, Véronique (2002) ‘Transcription et traduction des interactions en langue étrangère’ cahiers de praxématique 39: 77-99
Notes
1. Using the Numeric Key Pad
2. Consult your word processor’s ‘Help’ for how to use TAB-settings and the Ruler Bar
