[Air-L] out of luck re transcription?

Meryl Krieger meryl.krieger at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 16:22:44 PST 2009


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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