Ekberg2012

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Ekberg2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Ekberg2012
Author(s) Stuart Ekberg
Title Addressing a source of trouble outside of the repair space
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Tag(s) EMCA, Trouble Source, Repair, Conversation Analysis, Repair space, Intersubjectivity, Talk-in-interaction., Post-completion account
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Year 2012
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 44
Number 4
Pages 374–386
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.01.006
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Abstract

A body of research in conversation analysis has identified a range of structurally-provided positions in which sources of trouble in talk-in-interaction can be addressed using repair. These practices are contained within what Schegloff (1992) calls the repair space. In this paper, I examine a rare instance in which a source of trouble is not resolved within the repair space and comes to be addressed outside of it. The practice by which this occurs is a post-completion account; that is, an account that is produced after the possible completion of the sequence containing a source of trouble. Unlike fourth position repair, the final repair position available within the repair space, this account is not made in preparation for a revised response to the trouble-source turn. Its more restrictive aim, rather, is to circumvent an ongoing difference between the parties involved. I argue that because the trouble is addressed in this manner, and in this particular position, the repair space can be considered as being limited to the sequence in which a source of trouble originates.

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