Lerner-Kitzinger2019

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Lerner-Kitzinger2019
BibType ARTICLE
Key Lerner-Kitzinger2019
Author(s) Gene H. Lerner, Celia Kitzinger
Title Well-prefacing in the organization of self-initiated repair
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Tag(s) EMCA, Well-prefaced, Self-initiated repair
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Year 2019
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 52
Number 1
Pages 1–19
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2019.1572376
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Abstract

This report describes the use of well as a preface to repair solutions in self-initiated repair segments. It extends our previous work on repair prefacing, which showed that repair prefaces cast a relationship between a projected repair solution and its trouble source, with each preface type casting this relationship in a distinctive way. Based on analysis of our collection of 135 recorded instances of the phenomenon, we find that well-prefacing is a practice speakers use to overtly cast a repair solution as a noteworthy revision of the inadequate (but not wholly wrong) formulation it is moving away from. We then compare well-prefacing to no-prefacing and introduce the practice of double prefacing by describing well+no-prefacing. We conclude by describing three kinds of repair common among the well-prefaced repairs in our collection. Data are in British and American English.

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