Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word

By (author) Willow Roberts Powers

Not available to order

Publication date:

01 November 2005

Length of book:

128 pages

Publisher

AltaMira Press

ISBN-13: 9780759114579

This practical handbook tackles what you need to know before, during, and after transcription. Appropriate for varying levels of expertise_and written for transcriptionists, ethnographers, researchers, oral historians, participant observers, and even amateurs who plan to write their family history_this helpful guide by ethnographer Willow Roberts Powers covers a wide range of essential topics: why transcription methodology is essential, factors to be considered before transcribing (including reasons not to create a transcript), stages of transcription and recommended guidelines, methodology, editing, incorporation of contextual information, transcribing performances, and finally the interactions between transcriptionists, participants in the record events, researchers, and other future users of the transcripts. Appendices contain sample forms, lists and discussions of punctuation symbols typically used for notation systems, and sample excerpts from real transcripts

1 Acknowledgements 2 Introduction 3
Chapter 1: The Oral and the Written 4
Chapter 2: Background Factors in Transcribing 5
Chapter 3: Creating the Verbatim Transcript 6
Chapter 4: On Editing and Context 7
Chapter 5: The Social Relations of Transcripts 8 Appendix A. Sample Forms 9 Appendix B. Typographic Symbols 10 Appendix C. Examples of Transcripts 11 References and Recommended Reading 12 Index 13 About the Author

Here's a little book I wish I could have used in my classes on ethnographic research...The author reassures me early on that it is a book written by an ethnographer for ethnographers, people who need to get the important content of what somebody tells them....What the book does accomplish for the ethnographer is an answer to the questions of 'what you need to know before, during and after transcription' (p. 6). If you intend to quote informants' speech, here is a good starting place.