Spoken Language Transcription
Today we will be exploring live spoken conversation – and generating our own transcripts. Watch this short video excerpt (from the film “FIT”) and try to write your own transcript of the conversation. The Transcript:
Formality in Spoken Language
This period we tried to develop a working definition for formality. This proved to be a slippery topic. While everyone was comfortable with giving examples of formality and informality in both conversation and clothing – as well as identifying that there were subtle rules to formality (“It’s not just the shirt you wear but how you wear it”) – actually pinning down a definition for formality took some...
