[Air-L] out of luck re transcription?

[Pam Brewer]

Meryl--

Would you please send me more information on this method?

Best,
Pam

Pamela Estes Brewer
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Appalachian State University
phone 828-262-2351
fax  828-262-2133
email  brewerpe at appstate.edu



Meryl Krieger wrote:
> My only other thought comes out of the ethnographic methods class I teach at
> IU - we borrow from linguistic anthropologists and teach conversation
> analysis techniques to our students. It's cumbersome to learn, I must warn
> you, BUT it helps deal with that nagging problem of how you record the kinds
> of emphasis and inflection that we all know are so critical to grasping
> meta-meanings from our informants (or as one of my professors says,
> interlocutors!).
>
> If you are interested in more, let me know and I'll send you some of the
> samples we give our students to work with. My favorite part, and what sold
> me on using it in my own research is that you can use spaces on a page to
> show the interactive nature of dialogues in time. Amazing what you can see,
> especially when you research close to home as so many of us do...
>
> Best, Meryl Krieger
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Rhiannon Bury <rcbury at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I had no idea what "mechanical turk" was--thank goodness for Wiki. ;) I
>> don't think folks seem to appreciate the skill it takes to do a proper
>> transcription.  A good transcriber is worth his or her weight in gold! I
>> find it hard to believe that top transcribers are lining up to offer their
>> services on this web service.  I recently had some done by a person who came
>> recommended and had experience and it was not well done.
>>
>> And I'm totally with Denise. If you want to really understand your data,
>> you need to get your hands dirty.  I always listen to my interviews and take
>> detailed notes, including on intonation etc even if I don't do the
>> transcription myself.
>>
>> Rhiannon
>>
>>
>>
>>
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