A reminder of tomorrow’s colloquium by CĂ©cile Vigouroux, French Dept., SFU:
Examining Professional Vision and the Researcher’s Institutional Authority through the Examination of a Transcription Activity
“Transcription is part of any researcher’s professional practice, especially for researchers working on or with oral language. Besides being a practice, transcription has also become an object of enquiry in linguistics, especially linguistic anthropology, since the 1980s. Most of the approaches to transcription have in common the fact of examining it from the point of view of its outcome: the scription. My point of departure is different: in order to deconstruct scription, I look upstream and investigate the activity that produces it, thus focusing on the trans process”
For more details and to read the full abstract, visit the UBC Anthropology Department Colloquium page.
For related reading, see:
Vigouroux, C. (2007). Trans-scription as a social activity: an ethnographic approach.
Ethnography, 8(1), 61-97
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