Transcribing for Social Research

Alexa Hepburn, Galina B. Bolden

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781446247044
  9781446247037
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526421685
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

How can we capture the words, gestures and conduct of study participants? How do we transcribe what happens in social interactions in analytically useful ways? How could systematic and detailed transcription practices benefit research?

This book demonstrates how best to represent talk and interaction in a manageable and academically credible way that enables analysis. It describes and assesses key methodological and epistemological debates about the status of transcription research while also setting out best practice for handling different types of data and forms of social interaction.  

Featuring transcribing basics as well as important recent developments, this book guides you through:

• Time and sequencing
• Speech delivery and patterns
• Non-vocal conduct
• Emotive displays like laughter, tears, or pain
• Talk in non-English languages
• Helpful technological resources

As the first book-length exposition of the Jeffersonian transcription conventions, this well-crafted balance of theory and practice is a must-have resource for any social scientist looking to produce high quality transcripts. 

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Sidebar List
• Acknowledgments
• The Companion Website
• Foreword
• One Introduction
• Two Getting Started with Transcription
• Three Timing and Sequencing in Transcription
• Four Transcribing Speech Delivery
• Five Transcribing Aspiration and Laughter
• Six Transcribing Crying, Expressions of Pain and Other Non-speech Sounds
• Seven Transcribing Visible Conduct
• Eight Transcribing for Languages Other than English
• Nine Technological Resources for Transcription
• Ten Comparisons, Concerns and Conclusions
• References
• Index