Auer2005

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Auer2005
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Auer2005
Author(s) Peter Auer
Title Delayed self-repairs as a structuring device for complex turns in conversation
Editor(s) Auli Hakulinen, Margret Selting
Tag(s) IL, Self-repair, Delay
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2005
Language
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 75–102
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/sidag.17.06aue
ISBN
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Institution
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Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of Linguistic Resources in Talk-in-Interaction
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Abstract

This paper looks into the interactional basis of the grammatical format of parentheticals. It will be argued that such a basis can be found in abandoned or broken off units of talk in conversation which are not immediately recycled (repaired) but whose activity status is attended to at some later point of the emerging talk. These abandoned/broken off units, then, are not erased or "overwritten" by the subsequent structure, but their projectional force remains valid and needs to be attended to by recipients. On the interactional plane, the paper focuses on those post-break-off structures which introduce subsidiary elements of talk (often materials qualifying or specifying the upcoming main point of the turn) and after which the speaker returns or attempts to return into the broken-off/abandoned structure.

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Also published as Inlist 40: http://www.inlist.uni-bayreuth.de/issues/40/index.htm