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'Um, er': how meaning varies between speech and its typed transcript.

We report a small empirical study on the way the transcription used to represent speech affects its meaning. We show that 'disfluencies' in speech indicate far more uncertainty in the speaker when transmitted in text than when transmitted in recorded sound. This has important implications for how tr...

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Published in:Qualitative Research Vol. 19; no. 6; pp. 653 - 669
Main Authors: Collins, Harry, Leonard-Clarke, Willow, O'Mahoney, Hannah
Format: questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Dec2019
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          Speech
          Written Language
          Human
          Empirical Research
          Uncertainty
          Interviews
          Phonetics
          Language
          Convenience Sample
          Social Sciences
          Audiorecording
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