Transcribing for Social Research Mary Stephen in this newest work we

in this newest work we encounter again what one of the poems calls the 'love that masquerades as pure technique'

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Transcribing for Social Research Mary Stephen in this newest work weHow can we capture the words, gestures and conduct of study participants? How do we transcribe what happens in social interactions in analytically useful ways? How could systematic and detailed transcription practices benefit research? This book demonstrates how best to represent talk and interaction in a manageable and academically credible way that enables analysis. It describes and assesses key methodological and epistemological debates about the