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For the record: Questioning transcription processes in legal contexts

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posted on 2023-06-07, 13:32 authored by Emma RichardsonEmma Richardson, Kate Haworth, Felicity Deamer
Abstract Written records of spoken interaction are typically assumed to be adequate for the purpose they serve, often receiving minimal scrutiny from the institutions which consume them. In this article, we scrutinize the current practices of capturing spoken interaction in legal contexts in England and Wales, and highlight some of the often serious legal consequences that result. We ask five questions of record keeping in legal settings: (i) Is the record produced an accurate representation of the spoken interaction?; (ii) Do lay and PPs have ownership? Answered by giving careful thought to the rights they may or may not have to their data; (iii) Who has agency, who’s ‘voice’ is represented in the recorded account?; (iv) Then, we ask how usable the record is; and (v) How resource efficient it is to produce and use. By asking these questions, we make visible the underlying assumptions about transcription adequacy—in doing so, we acknowledge and enable reflection on the process of capturing spoken interaction. We envisage this model to be applicable to a range of institutional settings.

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School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Communication and Media

Published in

Applied Linguistics

Volume

43

Issue

4

Pages

677 - 697

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Author(s)

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access article published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Applied Linguistics and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Emma Richardson and others, For the Record: Questioning Transcription Processes in Legal Contexts, Applied Linguistics, Volume 43, Issue 4, August 2022, Pages 677–697, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amac005

Publication date

2022-02-08

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

0142-6001

eISSN

1477-450X

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Emma Richardson. Deposit date: 6 June 2023

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