Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Conventions of transcripts

Recently, I have been looking into transcripts from a variation of different sources such as TV programmes and real life situations. Along with this, analysing them has been something I've had to do as part of my course.

Conventions of transcripts:
Pauses:
  • Can be of various lengths
  • A pause in replacement of a comma is called a micropause
Utterances:
  • Sentences that don't start with a capital letter
  • Indicates a sense of finality
Intonations:
  • Difference in tone of voice
  • Rising intonation would be a question
  • Represented by an up arrow or a down arrow
Interruptions and Overlaps:
  • Shown by a '/' where the second speaker talks
  • An overlap is where the first speaker continues to talk
  • They can both show dominance over speakers
Paralinguistics:
  • Body language
  • Actions
  • Tone of voice
  • Can be indicated by square brackets, '[ ]'

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