Self-interruptions and self-corrections

[Chris Dixon]

Hi Brian,
Thanks, hadn't seen the 'quotation precedes' section. Wrist well and truly 
slapped.

Chris

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 12:15:26 PM UTC+1, Chris Dixon wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm not quite sure how to deal with self-interruptions and corrections. 
> The utterance I need to transcribe is:
>
> *CHI:  the turtle took him underwater to the beautiful palace where the 
> king's wife, *I mean the king's daughter*, gave him a box.
>
> How is this best transcribed? Currently I have it as such:
>
> *CHI:   the turtle took him underwater to the beautiful palace where the 
>     king's wife +//.
> *CHI:  I mean the king's daughter gave him a box.
>
>
> According to the manual.
> "When an incompletion is not followed by further material from the same 
> speaker, the +... symbol should always be selected. However, when the 
> speaker breaks off an utterance and starts up another, the +//. symbol can 
> be used"
>
> So I shouldn't use +... because there *is* further material from the same 
> speaker. The question is whether "I mean the king's daughter gave him a 
> box" counts as breaking off the previous utterance and constitutes a new 
> one in itself.
>
> Thanks!
> Chris
>
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "chibolts" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chibolts+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to chibolts at googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chibolts/c04d13bc-1bc8-4903-8d27-0d52a0895da6%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/chibolts/attachments/20140717/77fb8a2c/attachment.htm>