Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word

By (author) Willow Roberts Powers

Paperback - £35.00

Publication date:

01 November 2005

Length of book:

128 pages

Publisher

AltaMira Press

ISBN-13: 9780759108431

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
Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word covers so much more than simply transcription techniques... A fascinating read. For oral historians who do not transcribe and for transcribers who have no more involvement with the particular project from which the physical recording comes outside the physical act of making the transcription, this book will give invaluable insights into the world of the recorder and the world of the transcriber.