j wersll g bute (unin ll (only) a hh . hhh a ch-heh-he i engh-hengh &) 7 Transcription Conventions 1 ‘These transcription symbols (as used invthe papers by Goodwin; DeFrancisco; West; West and Zimmerman) are based on those devised by Gail Jefferson in the course of (ex) research undertaken with Haney Sacks (see H. Sacks, E, Schegloff and G. Jefferson (1974) ‘A simplest systematich for the prganization of turn-taking for conversation’, 10/19/70 Language, 50, 696-735, pp. 31-3) | or (TIS ‘A: Thad [them] } | Bracketgaround portions of utterances indicate that the 7 B: (Did ] you. | portiong bracketed overlap one another. //bvem |_| Double sashes provide an alternative method of mark ing overlap. i ‘A: ’swhat Tsuid=4 | Equals signs indicate ‘latching’: there is no interval | B:=But you didn't | between the end of a prior turn and the start of a next \ | blsse of talk Trarieen |_| Capital eners mark speech thats much fouder than surrounding talk “thirteen {| Acdegree sign marks speech that is much quieter than ) | surrounding talk. Italics indicate some form of emphasis. thirteen an Punctuation symbols are used to mark intonation, not ‘grammar, Numbers in parentheses mark silences in seconds and tenths of seconds, 5) { Parentheses around a period/fall stop indicate a pause ! of one-tenth of one second. * | @ Parentheses around the symbol ¥#" indicate a pause of i ane second or ess that it wasn’t possible to diserimin- | ate precisely Oo