Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-27-2025
Volume
7
Issue
2
Pages
65-84
Abstract
The careful transcription of socially-occurring speech can be usefully incorporated into undergraduate classes in linguistic anthropology through in-class practice, discussion, and, especially, as a formal assignment. Teaching transcription—a key method for professional linguistic anthropologists—is particularly effective for engaging students in active learning of key disciplinary principles, as well as promoting critical (self-)awareness of, and reflection on, sociolinguistic practice. As students’ written reflections on transcription assignments show, teaching close transcription contributes to deepened understandings of the fundamental characteristics and complexities of human speech, the key roles language plays in social interaction and inequality, and how they might apply these lessons toward greater social justice beyond the class.
Recommended Citation
Strand, Thea R. and Wroblewski, Michael. Teaching Transcription for Social Justice in Linguistic Anthropology. , 7, 2: 65-84, 2025. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Anthropology: Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/T3.42206
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Copyright Statement
© 2025 by the author(s)
