Transcription Resources

• CA convent​ion​s

  Transcription conventions used in conversation analysis first published in Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974), and developed by Gail Jefferson (2004).

• Schegloff's Tutorial

  Professor Manny Schegloff created a transcription tutorial for his students at UCLA, generously made public. The workshop shows each of the conventions with accompanying audio.

• Mondada's multimodality

  Professor Lorenza Mondada expanded basic CA conventions to record multimodal apsects of interaction in transcripts.

• Transcription 101

  Dr Emily Hofstetter outlines the fundamental principles of CA transcription in this excellent seven-minute video.

• Transcription as theory

  Recommended reading: Ochs, E. (1979). Transcription as theory. In E. Ochs and B. Schieffelin (eds.), Developmental Pragmatics. New York, NY: Academic Press.

• EMCA Wiki

  The wonderful EMCA Wiki - home of all things CA - has a comprehsive guide to transcription resources, including a summary of software and further reading.

 

• DOTE

  DOTE stands for Distributed Open Transcription Environment, created by the wonderful team of researchers and developers at Aarlborg University, supports CA transcription with time stamped video.