Transcribing discourse: interactions with Alzheimer's disease.
This paper illustrates the use of a 'discourse line' in transcribing spoken interaction between a person with Alzheimer's disease, and a visitor. Discourse is here interpreted as a metacategory, or an analytic level of interaction. We view transcribing as an integral part of 'doing discourse', and use two sub-layers of the discourse line, dedicated to speech acts and conversation analysis, respectively. The prosody and voice layer is used to show the analysis of a speaker's use of a specific voice quality in discourse terms.
Müller
Nicole
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Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, PO Box 43170, Lafayette, LA 70405-3170, USA. nmueller@louisiana.edu
Guendouzi
Jacqueline A
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000150:complications*; D003147:Communication Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008037:Linguistics / Q000379:methods*; D014833:Voice Quality