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outcome: the scription. My point of departure is different: in order to
deconstruct scription, I move upstream and investigate the activity that produces
it, thus focusing on the trans process. The data on which this analysis
rests are videotaped transcription activity performed collaboratively by a
linguistic anthropologist and her two consultants. My analysis demonstrates how
scription is constructed in a perpetual tension between authority and authorship.
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