Kendrick2015a

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Kendrick2015a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Kendrick2015a
Author(s) Kobin H. Kendrick
Title Other-initiated repair in English
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Tag(s) EMCA, Repair, Other-initiated repair, Typology
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Open Linguistics
Volume 1
Number 1
Pages 164–190
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DOI 10.2478/opli-2014-0009
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Abstract

The practices of other-initiation of repair provide speakers with a set of solutions to one of the most basic problems in conversation: troubles of speaking, hearing, and understanding. Based on a collection of 227 cases systematically identified in a corpus of English conversation, this article describes the formats and practices of other-initiations of repair attested in the corpus and reports their quantitative distribution. In addition to straight other-initiations of repair, the identification of all possible cases also yielded a substantial proportion in which speakers use other-initiations to perform other actions, including non-serious actions, such as jokes and teases, preliminaries to dispreferred responses, and displays of surprise and disbelief. A distinction is made between otherinitiations that perform additional actions concurrently and those that formally resemble straight other-initiations but analyzably do not initiate repair as an action.

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