The Benefits of a Jeffersonian Transcript

Over the past 6 decades, researchers in conversation analysis have repeatedly shown that everyday social activities such as inviting a friend over, interviewing police suspect, teaching class, or cross-questioning courtroom–are achieved orderly and reproducible ways. Jeffersonian transcription has been refined to both capture crystallize interactionally relevant specifics of how tasks get done. Conversation analytic work by leaving out features like timing turns, changes prosody, volume other vocal embodied delivery, standard orthographic transcript bleaches crucial components humans perform discursive actions, they continuously analyze one another across sequences talk. This short paper will overview some benefits investing time system. Rather than simply describing system, we illustrate usefulness its systematic detailed practices; show facilitates clearer picture things done interaction.