transcriptese

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A direct transcription of someone's speech, including speech disfluencies

Examples

“When we speak ⟳ out loud, we use ⟳ language differently from the way we do when we write ⟳, and the written form ⟳ of spoken speech—the “transcriptese” that types out the grunts, verbal gestures, and conversational hedges of ordinary talk ⟳—can make ⟳ people sound ⟳ more foolish and more hesitant than they are.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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See also

Transcription transcription factor transcriptionist Transcriptions transcriptome transcriptomics

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