Transcribing Talk and Interaction

Issues in the representation of communication data

Christopher Joseph Jenks
City University Hong Kong

Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books have been published in the past three decades. This is an astonishing fact given that there are perhaps hundreds of books published on spoken discourse analysis. This book aims to narrow this gap by providing an introduction to the theories and practices related to transcribing communication data. The book is intended for students with little to no knowledge of transcription work and/or instructors responsible for teaching introductory courses on transcript-based research. Readers who are learning or teaching discourse/conversation analysis or similar analytic methods of investigation will find this book particularly helpful.

The author:

Christopher Jenks has many years of experience teaching transcription work and analysis of communication data to postgraduate students and researchers. In addition to running workshops and giving presentations on similar topics at universities around the world, he has published widely in top international journals and has numerous other forthcoming publications.

[Not in series, 165]  2011.  xi, 120 pp.
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Table of Contents

Preface. An introduction to this book
ix–xii
Chapter 1. An introduction to transcripts of talk and interaction
1–10
Chapter 2. Theoretical issues
11–24
Chapter 3. Transcribing talk and interaction: The basics
25–44
Chapter 4. Transcribing interactional and paralinguistic features
45–70
Chapter 5. Transcribing nonverbal conduct
71–88
Chapter 6. Advanced issues
89–104
References
105–108
Appendices
109–118
Index
119–120

Quotes

“This volume equips the reader with the necessary tools needed to embark on a first transcription. Overall then, given the aim of the book to be used in introductory courses on research using interaction data, Jenks' work is a welcome, hands-on resource for how to transcribe.”
Veronika Drake, University of Wisconsin-Madison, on Linguist List Vol. 23.1907 (2012)

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

Communication Studies

BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2011018542
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