Wu2022b

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Wu2022b
BibType ARTICLE
Key Wu2022b
Author(s) Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu
Title Gestural repair in Mandarin conversation
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Tag(s) EMCA, Attenuated gesture, Chinese, Discourse, Embodiment, Gestural repair, Gestural tying, Gesture, Iconic gesture, Intersubjectivity, Mandarin, Multimodality, Positioning of gesture, Repair, Repeat of gesture, Return gesture, Same-turn self-initiated repair, Social interaction, Word search
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Year 2022
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 24
Number 1
Pages 65-93
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DOI 10.1177/14614456211037451
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Abstract

Ever since Charles Goodwin’s seminal works on gaze, there has been a long-standing interest in Conversation Analysis in the interrelationship between talk and bodily conduct in the accomplishment of social action. Recently, a small but emerging body of research has explored the ways in which embodied conduct figures in the organization and operations of repair. In this article, I take up a similar theme and investigate the interaction between talk and iconic gestures in same-turn self-initiated repair in Mandarin conversation. The phenomenon I examine concerns the use of what I call “gestural repair.” The analysis focuses on how such repair can intertwine with talk in multi-stage operations in the progressivity and resolution of repair. The data are drawn from 50 hours of naturally-occurring conversations collected in China. Some unique features of such gestural repair observed in the Mandarin data are also discussed.

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