Dr. Scheibman’s Discourse Analysis course was a turning point in my academic journey. Up until then I hadn’t really had much experience discussing sensitive topics. I learned that you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable to talk about important issues. That being said, I did not choose to use something like critical discourse analysis, the study of language related to the imbalance of power structures, for my own research. The work I did in this course I was able to continue in a later course and present on at the International Pragmatics Conference in 2017. Below is an excerpt of the paper I wrote.
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Open in new tab Before this final project, we had a chance to do some fieldwork. We recorded everyday conversations and transcribed them using DuBois et. al. This was a big help when I did the final project as the Santa Barbara corpus is also transcribed using these conventions. The following are the transcript I produced and the reflection on the process of recording and transcribing.
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