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Conversation analytic transcripts need to be detailed enough to facilitate the analyst’s quest to discover and describe orderly practices of social action in interaction. Central to the efforts of  CA is the idea that  various features of the delivery of talk and other   actions are basic to how  conversationalists  build  interaction  and meaning  and respond to those of others There are many significant things going on in talk that parties to the interaction treat as relevant, and that simple orthographic representation misses. It is for this reason that Jefferson developed ways of representing talk and other conduct that capture the rich subtlety of their delivery. Jefferson’s system of conventions evolved side by side with, and was informed by the results of, interaction analysis. There are a number of reasons why Jefferson notation is a preferred  method of transcription. It  attempts to capture the talk as it is heard to participants; it  is necessary for performing an adequate interactional analysis; and,  even if the analysis is concerned with features of lexical content (itself a potentially problematic notion in the abstract) the full transcript would most fully allow claims to be checked by other researchers.

Jefferson notation has been used to examine the details of very ordinary activities such as the social activity at family mealtime, students’ orientation to other students   during independent  writing ,  laughter , crying. The analysis made clear “how these practices are made possible through the very details of the participants’ actions”