Speaking of Sound

Language and the Professionalization of Sound-Recording Engineers

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ID5836740
AuthorsThomas Porcello (Vassar College, Vassar Colege Media Studies Development Project, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume34
Issue5
Pages733-758
Publication date2004-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Studies of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0306312704047328
OpenAlexW2073743567
LanguageEN
Citations received39
References cited11

This paper examines the role of speech-about-sound in sound-recording practice and the training of prospective sound engineers. The shift from apprenticeship to institutional learning in the mid-1980s is described as an effect of the digitization of the recording process, and provides a background to discussing how recording degree programs teach 'professional audition' to students via processes of instruction and internships. Two conversations recorded during a studio session are then analyzed to uncover the range of linguistic resources that novices and professionals use to talk about sound and to illustrate how talk about work is fundamental to the process of work. The paper concludes by suggesting that the institutional instructional model reconfigures the profession's tacit knowledge by making explicit discussion of sound more ingrained in professional training

Apprenticeship · Digitization · Tacit knowledge · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

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