Analytic Affordance: Transcripts as Conventionalised Systems in Discourse Studies.
This article explores the role of transcripts in the analysis of social action. Drawing on a study of the interactional processes in optometry consultations, we show how our interest in the rhythm of reading letters from a chart arose serendipitously from our orientation to transcription conventions...
| Published in: | Sociology Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 780 - 795 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2014
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