Schegloff1977

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Schegloff1977
BibType ARTICLE
Key Schegloff1977
Author(s) Emanuel A. Schegloff, Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks
Title The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation
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Tag(s) EMCA, Repair, Affiliation, Self-repair
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Year 1977
Language English
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Volume 53
Number 2
Pages 361–382
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DOI 10.2307/413107
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Abstract

An 'organization of repair' operates in conversation, addressed to recurrent problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding. Several features of that organization are introduced to explicate the mechanism which produces a strong empirical skewing in which self-repair predominates over other-repair, and to show the operation of a preference for self-repair in the organization of repair. Several consequences of the preference for self-repair for conversational interaction are sketched.

Notes

1: John Heritage adds this to the list on Affiliation saying: "Most of the older preference literature is about affiliation in a broad sense, see for example [big list of work more directly on affiliation] ... Insofar as a lot of the basic work on repair is concerned with describing practices for the avoidance of (overt) other correction, then the same holds there"

2: Reprinted in: Gail Jefferson, Repairing the Broken Surface of Talk: Managing Problems in Speaking, Hearing, and Understanding in Conversation. (Paul Drew and Jörg Bergmann, eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017): 93-126