4 Transcribing your interview

Question 1

transcribing

Answer 1

Transcription involves making a written record of the interview, which then can be used for data analysis. How to transcribe an interview depends on the purpose of the research and on the research questions.

Question 2

linguistic or conversational analysis

Answer 2

This contains all kinds of linguistic details about intonation, pronunciation, emphases, etc. There are very sophisticated protocols for doing these kinds of transcriptions.

Question 3

simpler kinds of transcription

Answer 3

Simpler kinds of transcription focus less on the linguistic aspects and more on the content of the interview and the social and cultural meanings expressed in the interview.

It is a first step in interpreting the interview. It is important, however, to include everything that is said by the interviewee and the interviewer in their own words. Everything should be transcribed as it was said, because it can help to uncover the meaning of it.

Question 4

archive your qualitative data

Answer 4

One should also never forget to add the name of the person interviewed, date and time of the interview, and possibly the role or function of the person interviewed. Nowadays, it is also standard that you need to archive your qualitative data, your interview transcript, to make sure that also later on the validity of your data can be checked. So also for that reason you always need full transcripts.

Question 5

The transcription of an interview of 60 minutes usually takes about…

Answer 5

4 to 5 hours