CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 20 MARCH

Association for Documentary Editing Session
Modern Language Association Convention
4-7 January 2018, New York City

He Said WHAAT??!! Editing Oral Texts for Print Publication

The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for a session about editing oral texts for print. We encounter oral texts in interviews, committee meetings, speeches and lectures, legal proceedings, recorded performances, anthropological fieldwork, and the like. What constitutes appropriate representation of these utterances in print?  Should pauses, ungrammatical phrasings, and other features be recorded punctiliously, whether spoken by a politician, an athlete, a preacher, a newscaster, or a story-teller?  How much of an utterance should be included?  Should standards vary according to the kind of publication (e. g. whether it is popular or scholarly)?  Papers might consider the technical problems and/or the judgments required in such editorial situations.

Please submit a 300-word abstract, short CV, and your contact information by 20 March to Carol DeBoer-Langworthy (CDBL@Brown.edu) or David Vander Meulen (dlv8g@eservices.virginia.edu). Inquiries also to either person.