Talking Data - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805803483 ISBN 13: 9780805803488

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book presents the reader with a set of diverse, carefully developed and clearly specified systems of transcription and coding, arising from contrasting theoretical perspectives, and presented as alternative choices, situated within the theoretical domain most natural to each. The perspectives represented include first and second language acquisition, interethnic and crosscultural interaction, information structure, and the study of discourse influences on linguistic expression.

In the contributed chapters, the designers of these systems provide a distillation of collective experiences from the past quarter century, telling in their own words their perspectives on language processes, how these perspectives have shaped their choice of methodology in transcription and coding of natural language, and describing their systems in detail. Overview chapters by the editors then provide design principles and guidelines concerning issues pertinent to all systems, including such things as reliability, validity, ease of learning, computational tractability, and robustness against error. The final chapter is a compendium of existing computerized archives of language data and information sources together with details concerning data access and use.

About this title

About the Author

Jane A. Edwards, Martin D. Lampert

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805803483
• ISBN 13: 9780805803488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Edwards Jane A., Lampert Martin D.