Practicing Linguistics Without a License

Transcription conventions used

Symbol

Meaning

(.)

short untimed pause

(1.5)

time pause in seconds and tenths of seconds

((head nod))

double parentheses for description of events

[((gesture))

left bracket double parentheses for embodied action

word

italicizing for stress

lo:::ng

colon(s) for vowel lengthening

bold

louder than surrounding talk

bold italics

loudness+stress

=

equal sign for latched utterances with no pause

look-

dash for cut off utterances

[((extends open palm))

below brackets for overlapping speech/gesture

(B)

(B) in parentheses for beat underneath its accompanying word or phrase

References

Aikhenvald, Alexandra. 2004. Evidentiality. New York: Oxford U. Press. 

Alexander, Jeffery. 2012. Trauma: A Social Theory ...