Memorable Quotes # 12: Transcription Truths

(Book: Ten Have, P. (2007). Doing conversation analysis: A practical guide. (2nd edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications):


“Making transcriptions is extremely time consuming.” (p. 110)


(Book: Wood, L.A. & Kroger. R.O. (2000). Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.) :


“Transcription is complicated and very time consuming.” (p. 82)


(Article: Jefferson, G. (2004). Glossary of transcript symbols with an Introduction. In G. H. Lerner (Ed.) Conversation analysis: Studies from the first generation. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.):


“Why put all that stuff in? Well, as they say, because it's there.” (p. 15)