Poetic Transcriptions

Welome to Poetic Transcriptions! This ethnopoetic game explores the meaning that exists between the words we say, encouraging scholars to reconsider how they construct their research transcripts. This game asks players to construct short story poems using only the words randomly generated by this project website. These words, identified by Berger (1967) and Hipskind and Nerbonne (1970) as among the most common spoken in conversation during their respective fieldwork, are often considered extrane...