The document provides instructions on how to transcribe a one minute extract from the TV show Gavin and Stacey to experience how spontaneous speech texts are created. It includes keys to denote pauses and longer pauses measured in seconds. The purpose is to highlight the unscripted nature of conversational transcripts and how they are typically structured with elements like greetings, questions, answers, statements, requests, apologies etc. with indications of who is speaking and overlapped lines.
1 of 4
More Related Content
1 adj pairs starter
1. How to be boring Transcribe this one minute extract from Gavin and Stacey to experience how spontaneous speech texts are created. Key: (.) ¨C pause (2) ¨C longer pause, time in seconds [ over two lines where there¡¯s an overlap
4. Who¡¯s finished that exercise? I have. Question/answer Hi. You look great today, love that jumper. I¡¯m really sorry, I shouldn¡¯t have said that. How about if we went to the cinema instead? This just isn¡¯t good enough, you know! Would you like some tea? Can you bring that to me, please?
