Stivers2005

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Stivers2005
BibType ARTICLE
Key Stivers2005
Author(s) Tanya Stivers
Title Modified repeats: one method for asserting primary rights from second position
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Tag(s) EMCA, Repetition
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Year 2005
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 38
Number 2
Pages 131–158
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DOI 10.1207/s15327973rlsi3802_1
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Abstract

In this article I examine one practice speakers have for confirming when confirmation was not otherwise relevant. The practice involves a speaker repeating an assertion previously made by another speaker in modified form with stress on the copula/auxiliary. I argue that these modified repeats work to undermine the first speaker's default ownership and rights over the claim and instead assert the primacy of the second speaker's rights to make the statement. Two types of modified repeats are identified: partial and full. Although both involve competing for primacy of the claim, they occur in distinct sequential environments: The former are generally positioned after a first claim was epistemically downgraded, whereas the latter are positioned following initial claims that were offered straightforwardly, without downgrading.

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