27.08.2015, 16:34
Dear Stefan
Thank you very much for your answer. I tried it out, but unfortunately, it does not work for me, because if the / is at the end of someone's turn, it will also include the next turn in the autocoding, and I need to count the individual symbols in each speaker's turn.
I started autocoding with the AND NOT option (// AND NOT //~), which works for single-line turns at least. In longer turns it does not code // if there is a //~ nearby, of course. If there was the option to choose "within one line" rather than "within one sentence" in the extended search, it would work for me, as I have one symbol at the end of each line. I assume there is no way of doing this?
Another option I tried was to autocode //~ and autocode //, then do a coding query and look for intersections, so that I could delete all the //~ that overlap with // from the list. However, this did not work as I wasn't able to delete all the instances in the table at once (and doing it one at a time takes too long for several thousand instances).
I also assume there is no wildcard that represents the end of a line?
I am adding an extract from my transcription below, maybe this will explain my issue a bit better. Each of the four turns makes up one paragraph.
Best wishes
Silja
[i:19pkbg0x]EXAMPLE:
C: <H::>
<F<HI ^yeah but HI>F> \~
<W I I <HI still HI> think people are quite ^ignorant W> \\
<P<CRK<LO when it ^comes to LO>CRK>P> \
… ((37:24))
<P<HSK<LO your^selves LO>HSK>P> /~
… ((37:26))
<P<HSK the whole .. <LO ^p:roblem LO>HSK>P> /
<PP<LO<HSK about ^politics [and all] that HSK>LO>PP> \
L: [<P<HSK ^yeah HSK>P>] \~
C: <P<HSK<W and .. I <HI ^think HI> that’s W>HSK>P> \
<H:>
… ((37:31))
L: and it [a^nnoys you] _
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