The Importance of Transcripts in Speech Docs

I really feel this in our transcripts because the good people at speech docs take our spoken English and turn it into words on a page. I can hear facial expressions that I can't see in the transcript, and those all contribute to the meaning. If you just read the transcript, you get a completely false impression of what the material is. So I guess those are all aspects of the written language ideology that if you've written it down and you've looked at it, you've pretty much got it.