Question about tagging prompted language in a transcript

[Amanda Huensch]

Hi All-


We are attempting to code some language in our transcripts such that it is 
ignored in a freq count. We have narrative data which includes language 
that was prompted by written text in the stories (e.g., “every morning was 
the same”) that we don’t want to be included in some analyses. Sometimes 
the language is an entire utterance and sometimes it is a partial utterance 
(examples below).

 

The current way we are coding this language to be ignored is by using angle 
brackets to select the language to be ignored and adding [@g] at the end of 
the line. So, for example:

 

13    *400:            <so this is the story of Natalia and her cat Pancho> 
[@g] .

14    *400:            <every morning was the same> [@g] .

15    *400:            Natalia &euh read to her toys .

…

23    *400:            and they went home together . 

24    *400:            <until one day> [@g] when Pancho left the house he 
was scared away by a dog .

 

Then, using this command 

 

freq @ +t*1* +r6  -s"<@g>"

 

we get a word count without that language.

 

While this seems to work for us at the moment, my concern is that when I 
conduct an esc+l, I get the error message:

 

([@g] highlighted): Symbol is not declared in the dep file

 

My questions then are: (1) Is there a better way to accomplish this goal? 
or (2) Is there a way to use this method but not get the error message?

 

Thank you for your help,

Amanda

 

PS If it is the case that we can/should continue to code this way, do you 
foresee complications with phrases that already have angle brackets (the 
count still appears to work). So, for example:

 

*400:     and she said <<did he say France> [= r]> [@g] ?

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