Albert-deRuiter2018

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Albert-deRuiter2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Albert-deRuiter2018
Author(s) Saul Albert, Jan P. de Ruiter
Title Repair: the interface between interaction and cognition
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Tag(s) EMCA, Repair, Cognition, Methodology, Ethnomethodology
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Topics in Cognitive Science
Volume 10
Number 2
Pages 279–313
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DOI 10.1111/tops.12339
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Abstract

Conversational repair is the process people use to detect and resolve problems of speaking, hearing, and understanding. Through repair, participants in social interaction display how they establish and maintain communication and mutual understanding. We argue that repair provides a crucial theoretical interface for research between diverse approaches to studying human interaction. We provide an overview of conversation analytic findings about repair in order to encourage further cross‐disciplinary research involving both detailed inductive inquiry and more theory‐driven experimental approaches. We outline CA's main typologies of repair and its methodological rationale, and we provide transcripts and examples that readers can explore for themselves using open data from online corpora. Since participants in interaction use repair to deal with problems as they emerge at the surface level of talk, we conclude that repair can be a point of convergence for studying mis/communication from multiple methodological perspectives.

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