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Transcription Conventions. Transcription: conventions. Transcribe what? Words, pauses, paraverbal phenomena (e.g. laughter) Particular articulation phenomena Incomprehensible, hard to understand passages Intonation, accent etc. Gestures, facial expression Codeswitches, repairs
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Transcription Conventions
Transcription: conventions • Transcribe what? • Words, pauses, paraverbal phenomena (e.g. laughter) • Particular articulation phenomena • Incomprehensible, hard to understand passages • Intonation, accent etc. • Gestures, facial expression • Codeswitches, repairs • How to transcribe? • Measure pauses, in brackets: (0.7) • Repairs with a slash: Ropa/ Repair 05.03.11 2
Transcription: conventions • Consitency / uniformity • Comprehensebility • Systematic searching, analysing • Automatic processing (Segmentation, wordlist) • Depending on research interest / theoretical backgroung • Syntax acquisition vs. conversation structures • Ignore irrelevant information (modelling)
Transcription: conventions • HIAT • Functional pragmatic, multilingual • CHAT • L1 acquisition, multilingual • GAT • Conversation analysis, German • DIDA • Conversation analysis, German • DT, DT2, ICOR, GTS/MSO6 • Undocumented, project-tailored conventions
Representational variation I take • a break (HIAT) I take (.) a break (GAT) I take * a break (DIDA) I take .. a break (DT) I take # a break (CHAT) I take / a break (Czech System)
Interpretative variation • Take into account (& precision) in the case of simultaneous speech • Units above word level • HIAT: „Äußerungen“(=utterances) • – functional criteria, modus • GAT: „Intonationsphrasen“ (=intonation phrases) • – prosodic criteria, intonation • DIDA: none • Pauses • HIAT: assigned to the following speaker/utterance • GAT: usually without speaker
HIAT • Words in literary transcription wanna • „Special“ words in full length, e.g. • numbers twenty-four • abbreviations Sankt Pauli • Pauses • estimated with 1-3 bullets •• • measured in double brackets ((0.7s)) • Nonverbal ((laughing)) • Incomprehensible ((incomp.)) • Hard to understand (this) is great • Repairs Ropa/ Repairs
HIAT • Utterance types • Assertions That's true. • Questions Is that true? • Exclamations Oh no! • Discontinuations But I… • Without modus (e.g. min, response) Hm˙ • Other interpunctuation ≈ conform with orthographic conventions