Wu2003
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Wu2003 |
Author(s) | Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu |
Title | Initiating Repair and Beyond: The Use of Two Repeat-Formatted Repair Initiations in Mandarin Conversation |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, repair, Mandarin |
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Year | 2003 |
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Journal | Discourse Processes |
Volume | 41 |
Number | 1 |
Pages | 67–109 |
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DOI | 10.1207/s15326950dp4101_5 |
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Abstract
As part of a growing effort to understand the organization of repair across languages, this study examines 2 repeat-formatted other-initiated repair practices in Mandarin conversation. Using the methodology of conversation analysis as a central framework, this study shows that the 2 Mandarin repair initiations under examination, like other-initiation of repair in English, serve not only to initiate repair but also as vehicles for accomplishing additional negatively valenced actions, such as displaying a stance of disbelief or nonalignment. In further explicating the common sequential and activity contexts of these practices, this study shows that the division of labor between these 2 repair initiations in accomplishing additional negative actions is sensitive to 2 intertwining axes: the epistemic stance of the speaker who initiates the repair and the sequential context and positioning of the initiation of repair. It is argued that such a division of labor is consistent with, and is in fact carried over from, the basic meanings they index when serving as straightforward repair initiations.
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