Transcription — the extended directions of data histories: a response to M. Bucholtz's 'Variation in Transcription'

Abstract

This response picks up on the four key points developed in `Variation in Transcription'. The focus is on how transcription practices are implicated in extended histories of data processing by arguing for a wider take on the `dyad' of researcher and represented voice. The article addresses the relevance of historically specific contexts of `hearing' and interpretative-analytical appropriation, the practical exigencies of publication and how these have shifted over time, the contemporary challenges posed by transcription-in-translation, as well as the affordances and constraints of past and current technologies.

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data histories technology transcription translation

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