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transcriptese

transcriptese noun: a direct transcription of someone's speech, including speech disfluencies.

Noun

transcriptese (uncountable)

  1. A direct transcription of someone's speech, including speech disfluencies
    • 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.2012, Tanya Luhrmann, When God Talks Back, Alfred A. Knopf

Questions about transcriptese

What does transcriptese mean?
Transcriptese means a direct transcription of someone's speech, including speech disfluencies.
What part of speech is transcriptese?
Transcriptese is a noun.

Words near transcriptese in the dictionary

  1. transcribing
  2. transcript
  3. transcriptase
  4. transcriptases
  5. transcripted
  6. transcriptese
  7. transcripting
  8. transcription
  9. transcription factor
  10. transcription factors
  11. transcriptional

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