Betz2013a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Emma M. Betz, Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Veronika Drake, Andrea Golato |
| Title | Third position repeats in German: The case of repair- and request-for-information sequences |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Journal | Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion |
| Volume | 14 |
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| Pages | 133-166 |
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Abstract
Using conversation analysis, this paper describes the function of repeats in spoken German. Its analytic focus is repeats in third position to two-part sequences. Such sequence-expanding repeats do not (primarily) initiate repair; instead, they present and explicitly register just-retrieved, new, or corrected information. We discuss two sequential environments: information request sequences and repair sequences. Each is associated with a different sequence-initiating and sequence-expanding turn format: 1) Third-position repeats in repair sequences are typically followed by additional elements, either in the same or in the next turn. Specifically, word searches formatted as wh-questions receive repeats in third position, typically accompanied by additional claims of understanding. Repair sequences that include corrections typically receive free-standing repeats in third position, but these require co-participant's confirmation and thus engender a minimal expansion sequence. (2) All repeats after information request sequences engender more than minimal expansions, either because they include corrections or because speakers combine repeats with stance displays. We suggest that such repeats constitute practices at the boundary of information receipt and repair initiation. In both sequential environments, repeats register information, but do not claim understanding or show commitment to that information. Repeats are presentations of a change of state rather than merely a claim to it and thus make specific information available for subsequent use. This distinguishes them from German change-of-state tokens, notably ach and achso.
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