Manrique2016
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Manrique2016 |
Author(s) | Elizabeth Manrique |
Title | Other-initiated repair in Argentine Sign Language |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Argentine Sign Language, Repair |
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Year | 2016 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Open Linguistics |
Volume | 2 |
Number | 1 |
Pages | 1–34 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.1515/opli-2016-0001 |
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Abstract
Other-initiated repair is an essential interactional practice to secure mutual understanding in everyday interaction. This article presents evidence from a large conversational corpus of a sign language, showing that signers of Argentine Sign Language (Lengua de Señas Argentina or ‘LSA’), like users of spoken languages, use a systematic set of linguistic formats and practices to indicate troubles of signing, seeing and understanding. The general aim of this article is to provide a general overview of the different visual-gestural linguistic patterns of other-initiated repair sequences in LSA. It also describes the quantitative distribution of other-initiated repair formats based on a collection of 213 cases. It describes the multimodal components of open and restricted types of repair initiators, and reports a previously undescribed implicit practice to initiate repair in LSA in comparison to explicitly produced formats. Part of a special issue presenting repair systems across a range of languages, this article contributes to a better understanding of the phenomenon of other-initiated repair in terms of visual and gestural practices in human interaction in both signed and spoken languages.
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