FROM SPOKEN TO WRITTEN LANGUAGE: A FEW REMARKS ON PARLIAMENTARY TRANSCRIPTS Cover Image

DE L’ORAL À L’ÉCRIT : QUELQUES REMARQUES SUR LES TRANSCRIPTIONS DES SÉANCES PARLEMENTAIRES
FROM SPOKEN TO WRITTEN LANGUAGE: A FEW REMARKS ON PARLIAMENTARY TRANSCRIPTS

Author(s): Veronica Manole
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: spoken vs. written language; transcribing spoken language; parliamentary discourse.

Summary/Abstract: From spoken to written language: a few remarks on parliamentary transcripts. The aim of this paper is to compare spoken and written language in parliamentary transcripts. The corpus analysis of three audiovisual records of Brazilian, Portuguese and Romanian parliamentary sittings and their respective transcripts show the following transformations made by the transcribers: content corrections and suppressions, grammar corrections, reformulations to clarify the message and to adapt the discourse to the formal register, changes in turn taking sequences.

  • Issue Year: 59/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 127-141
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French