Manrique2016

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Manrique2016
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
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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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