Meryl-- Would you please send me more information on this method? Best, Pam Pamela Estes Brewer Assistant Professor Department of English Appalachian State University phone 828-262-2351 fax 828-262-2133 email brewerpe@appstate.edu Meryl Krieger wrote:
My only other thought comes out of the ethnographic methods class I teach at IU - we borrow from linguistic anthropologists and teach conversation analysis techniques to our students. It's cumbersome to learn, I must warn you, BUT it helps deal with that nagging problem of how you record the kinds of emphasis and inflection that we all know are so critical to grasping meta-meanings from our informants (or as one of my professors says, interlocutors!).
If you are interested in more, let me know and I'll send you some of the samples we give our students to work with. My favorite part, and what sold me on using it in my own research is that you can use spaces on a page to show the interactive nature of dialogues in time. Amazing what you can see, especially when you research close to home as so many of us do...
Best, Meryl Krieger
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Rhiannon Bury <rcbury@rogers.com> wrote:
I had no idea what "mechanical turk" was--thank goodness for Wiki. ;) I don't think folks seem to appreciate the skill it takes to do a proper transcription. A good transcriber is worth his or her weight in gold! I find it hard to believe that top transcribers are lining up to offer their services on this web service. I recently had some done by a person who came recommended and had experience and it was not well done.
And I'm totally with Denise. If you want to really understand your data, you need to get your hands dirty. I always listen to my interviews and take detailed notes, including on intonation etc even if I don't do the transcription myself.
Rhiannon
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