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ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science

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    A Journey into Transcription, Part 4: The Question Question

    question: (NOUN) A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information. Since we speak in utterances (not sentences), most forms of punctuation are omitted in this corpus of learner language; the exceptions being apostrophes, hyphens and question marks.  This blog concerns question marks.  (Warning: there are not many jokes!) When we started transcription, the convention seemed…

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