Transcribing for Social Research

Alexa Hepburn is a research professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University. Her research is focused on the use and development of conversation analytic methods, in particular, emotional expressions, parents′ strategies for managing children′s behavior, and techniques for giving advice and responding empathically to distress. Analytic insights are then applied in professional–client encounters, such as medical consultations, therapeutic environments, and helpline interactions.Galina B. Bolden (PhD, UCLA) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University and a member of the Rutgers University Conversation Analysis Laboratory (rucal.rutgers.edu). She conducts conversation analytic research on the organization of talk-in-interaction in English and Russian languages and bilingual talk in ordinary, medical, and workplace contexts. Drawing on English and Russian language data, her recent works examines such topics as the organization of repair, discourse markers in conversation, conversation analytic transcription, the organization of reminiscing, requesting, and treatment negotiations in psychiatric settings.

• Foreword: Emanuel A SchegloffChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Getting Started with TranscriptionChapter 3: Timing and Sequencing in TranscriptionChapter 4: Transcribing Speech DeliveryChapter 5: Transcribing Aspiration and LaughterChapter 6: Transcribing Crying, Expressions of Pain and Other Non-Speech SoundsChapter 7: Transcribing Visible ConductChapter 8: Transcribing for Languages Other than EnglishChapter 9: Technological Resources for TranscriptionChapter 10: Comparisons, Concerns and Conclusions

The authors’ calm and well-organised coverage pays tribute to a generous variety of transcription styles in the Conversation Analysis tradition. The book is an invaluable source of techniques for capturing the words, whoops, gulps, sighs, eyebrow-flashes and head-nods of language in all the complexity of its performance.