Voice into text : case studies in the history of linguistic transcription
As a contribution to the field of linguistic historiography (Swiggers, 2010), this thesis offers a detailed narrative of the âmental worldsâ of writers tackling the task of transcribing languages both before the appearance of the International Phonetic Alphabet in 1888 and at a time when the IPA was emerging as the agreed standard for phonetic transcription. The narrative includes an account of how the cultural, historical and political background in which these writers operated, ultimately shaped their linguistic transcriptions. I argued that this approach, which also included observations drawn from fields other than linguistics, helped to provide a far richer illustration of their mental worlds, and that its omission would have rendered my analysis seriously deficient. This work has also demonstrated that the writersâ own linguistic training could also hinder, rather than aid, the transcription process. It has also therefore focused on how the authors mediated the tension between their pre-existing linguistic knowledge and the reality of the data they had to analyse. It has been argued that success in this context also resulted in a successful transcription. The two corpora presented in this thesis
Tarantelli, Valentina
Voice into text : case studies in the history of linguistic transcription. As a contribution to the field of linguistic historiography (Swiggers, 2010), this thesis offers a detailed narrative of the âmental worldsâ of writers tackling the task of transcribing languages both before the appearance of the International Phonetic Alphabet in 1888 and at a time when the IPA was emerging as the agreed standard for phonetic transcription. The narrative includes an account of how the cultural, historical and political background in which these writers operated, ultimately shaped their linguistic transcriptions. I argued that this approach, which also included observations drawn from fields other than linguistics, helped to provide a far richer illustration of their mental worlds, and that its omission would have rendered my analysis seriously deficient. This work has also demonstrated that the writersâ own linguistic training could also hinder, rather than aid, the transcription process. It has also therefore focused on how the authors mediated the tension between their pre-existing linguistic knowledge and the reality of the data they had to analyse. It has been argued that success in this context also resulted in a successful transcription. The two corpora presented in this thesis
voice text case_study history linguistic transcription field linguistic historiography offer_detailed narrative mental world writer tackle task transcribe language appearance international phonetic alphabet time emerge agree standard phonetic transcription narrative include account cultural_historical political background writer operate ultimately shape linguistic transcription argue also_include observation draw field linguistics help provide far rich illustration mental world omission would render analysis seriously deficient work also_demonstrate writer linguistic training could also hinder rather aid transcription process also therefore focused author mediate tension pre_existing linguistic_knowledge reality data_analyse argue success context also result successful transcription corpus present