Having a range of data in different formats - video, audio, and text files - led to challenges and a need for transcripts to also include descriptions of gestures, notes accompanying sign-language interviews, and observations and notes on technical issues or interruptions that occurred during interviews. All transcripts were completed with coresearchers, research assistants, and interpreters. 

Challenges of Data Collection

Price notes the reason for using near-verbatim transcription was so readers could focus on the narrative flow and themes of the participant's quotes and testimonies rather than focusing on micro-moments of interaction, and that near-verbatim transcription has been used by other researchers for this purpose.

Interviews were transcribed and quotations from interviews throughout the book are shared in what price calls a "near-verbatim" fromat, in this format markers for short pauses, occasional stumbles over words, and vocalizations like "um", and "uh" are omitted, however speech patterns including pauses longer than two seconds, words that were started then interuppted (for example "nev-well almost never"), repeated utterances including "um" and "like", and moments where the interviewer and speaker are simultaneously communicating.

Near-Verbatim Format

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

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