Transcribing Now
MEANS AND MEANINGS IN THE TRANSCRIPTION OF SPOKEN INTERACTION

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
University of California, Santa Barbara
Sunday, May 15, 2005

A symposium in association with the annual LISO conference
Organized by Mary Bucholtz (bucholtz@linguistics.ucsb.edu)
and John Du Bois (dubois@linguistics.ucsb.edu)

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PROGRAM

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8:00      Coffee and morning refreshments
8:20      Mary Bucholtz (UCSB, Linguistics) and John Du Bois (UCSB, Linguistics), "Introduction: Why Transcribing This Matters Now"

TRANSCRIBING AS PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE

 

Presentations

8:30      Alessandro Duranti (UCLA, Anthropology), "The Culture of Transcription: Properties and Paradoxes"
9:00      Robert Englebretson (Rice U, Linguistics), "Transcribing across Languages"

Discussion

9:30     Judith Green (UCSB, Education), "Transcribing within an Ethnographic Study: Text, Context, and Intertextuality"
9:45     Emanuel Schegloff (UCLA, Sociology), "A Conversation Analysis Perspective"
10:00   General discussion

10:15-10:30  Coffee break

 

TRANSCRIPTION DESIGN

 

Presentations

10:30   Charles Goodwin (UCLA, Applied Linguistics), "Multi-Modal Representation of Multi-Modal Interaction"
11:00   Wallace Chafe (UCSB, Linguistics), "Adequacy, User-Friendliness, and Practicality in Transcribing"

Discussion

11:30   John Gumperz (UC Berkeley, Anthropology), "Contextualization in Speech and Its Representation"
11:45   General discussion

12:00-1:30 Lunch break

 

PANEL/DATA SESSION: TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM COMPARISON

 

1:30-3:00  Comparison of transcription systems with a common recording

    1:30-1:40  Transcription practicum
    1:40-2:00  John Du Bois (UCSB, Linguistics), "Prosody in a Delicacy/Granularity Hierarchy for Discourse Transcription (DT)"
    2:00-2:20  Matthew Gordon (UCSB, Linguistics), "Transcribing Intonation with Tones and Break Indices (ToBI)"
    2:20-2:40  Gail Jefferson (Independent Researcher, Rinsumageest) and Gene Lerner (UCSB, Sociology), "Conversation Analysis Transcription"
    2:40-3:00  Data session and general discussion

3:00-3:15 Coffee break

 

TRANSCRIPTION AS REPRESENTATION

 

Presentations

3:15     Mary Bucholtz (UCSB, Linguistics), "Variation in Transcription"
3:45     Alexandra Jaffe (CSU-Long Beach, Linguistics), "Orthography, Voice, and Other-Representation in Transcription"

Discussion

4:15     Charles Bazerman (UCSB, Education), "Transcription as Writing"
4:30     Michael Silverstein (U of Chicago, Anthropology and Linguistics), "Iconicities: A Linguistic Anthropology Perspective"
4:45     General discussion

5:00      Closing