Gao2020

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Gao2020
BibType ARTICLE
Key Gao2020
Author(s) Yan Gao
Title Laughter as Same-Turn Self-Repair Initiation in L2 Oral Proficiency Interview
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Tag(s) EMCA, Repair, Self-repair, Laughter
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Year 2020
Language English
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Journal Open Journal of Social Sciences
Volume 8
Number 4
Pages 99752,16
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DOI 10.4236/jss.2020.84035
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Abstract

Repair is the effort that speaker makes to smooth utterances or conversations in order to achieve the ongoing progressivity of the turn. Among the types of repair, self-repair is mostly preferred (Schegloff et al., 1977) in talk-in-interaction, and in self-repair, self-initiated self-repair is mostly preferred, especially when it happens in the same turn. Therefore it has received much attention. In the gate-keeping interviews for Chinese candidates to get access to the target college in Britain, there occurs in L2 a large number of same-turn self-initiated self-repair cases, in which the initiation is no longer the single lexical words, or the non-lexical pauses like cut-off, or sound stretches as has been studied, but the paralinguistic device, laughter. Despite the numerous studies on roles of laughter, there is hardly a mention of laughter employed as a self-repair initiation. Consequently, this study determines on the focus on laughter as a self-repair initiator in L2, and aims to identify its exact shape and positions in self-repair and relevant repairing segment, therefore concluding on its specific functions and its relations with delicacy. This study wishes to contribute to the researches on self-repair initiation in Conversation Analysis and on laughter in particular L2 testing context.

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