Lerner2015
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Lerner2015 |
| Author(s) | Gene H Lerner, Celia Kitzinger |
| Title | Or-Prefacing in the Organization of Self-Initiated Repair |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Self-repair, Or-prefacing |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 48 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 37–41 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2015.993844 |
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Abstract
This report identifies a distinct, and distinctly positioned, element of the repair segment—the repair preface—and focuses on or-prefacing to introduce the practice of repair prefacing and to develop an analysis of one preface type. Although or-prefaced repairs do substitute one formulation for another, the or-preface shows that the trouble source formulation is not being discarded altogether, thereby mitigating the reparative character of the repair operation. We also examine expanded or-prefaced repair segments for what they reveal about the part or-prefacing plays in repair. Additionally, and as part of our explication of repair prefacing, we show how some same-TCU repairs (with and without or-prefaces) can be mounted without progressivity-disrupting hitches or alerts. Data are in American and British English.
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