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in this newest work we encounter again what one of the poems calls the 'love that masquerades as pure technique'

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on this island of roads that ‘constrict like throats’

" The story of the Maine lobster boat needs to be told--before the storied history of this iconic American craft slips away forever into the past

Transcribing for Social Research Mary Stephen These scenarios seem to haveHow can we capture the words, gestures and conduct of study participants? How do we transcribe what happens in social interactions in analytically useful ways? How could systematic and detailed transcription practices benefit research? This book demonstrates how best to represent talk and interaction in a manageable and academically credible way that enables analysis. It describes and assesses key methodological and epistemological debates about the