Gilles, Peter ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
This article presents a revised version of GAT, a transcription system first developed by a group of German conversation analysts and interactional linguists in 1998. GAT tries to follow as many principles and conventions of CA's Jeffersonstyle transcription as possible, yet proposes some conventions which are more compatible with linguistic and phonetic analyses of spoken language, especially for the representation of prosody in talk-in-interaction. After ten years of use by many reseachers in conversation and discourse analysis, it was time to revise the first version, against the background of past experience and in light of new necessities for the transcription of corpora arising from technological advances and methodological developments over recent years. This text presents the new GAT 2 transcription system with all its conventions. It gives detailed instructions on how to transcribe spoken talk on three levels of delicacy: minimal, basic and refined transcript versions. In addition, it briefly introduces a few tools that may be helpful for the user: the online tutorial GAT-TO and the transcription editing software FOLKER.
