Lerner-Kitzinger2019
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Lerner-Kitzinger2019 |
| Author(s) | Gene H. Lerner, Celia Kitzinger |
| Title | Well-prefacing in the organization of self-initiated repair |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Well-prefaced, Self-initiated repair |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 52 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 1–19 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2019.1572376 |
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Abstract
This report describes the use of well as a preface to repair solutions in self-initiated repair segments. It extends our previous work on repair prefacing, which showed that repair prefaces cast a relationship between a projected repair solution and its trouble source, with each preface type casting this relationship in a distinctive way. Based on analysis of our collection of 135 recorded instances of the phenomenon, we find that well-prefacing is a practice speakers use to overtly cast a repair solution as a noteworthy revision of the inadequate (but not wholly wrong) formulation it is moving away from. We then compare well-prefacing to no-prefacing and introduce the practice of double prefacing by describing well+no-prefacing. We conclude by describing three kinds of repair common among the well-prefaced repairs in our collection. Data are in British and American English.
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