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Practices and actions

Boundary cases of other-initiated repair

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ID5777611
AuthorsEmanuel A Schegloff (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume23
Issue3
Pages499-545
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Processes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01638539709545001
OpenAlexW1999480495
LanguageEN
Citations received290
References cited29

Working within a naturalistic paradigm for which the notion of "practices" is more apt than "processes," I address the multiplicity of ties between practices of talk-in-interaction and the actions which they accomplish. After describing common procedures of data collection and preparation in this mode of inquiry and the "boundary cases" which these procedures may engender, I explore alternative actions which can be recognizably produced by practices of talking ordinarily associated with the action of "initiating repair." Two practices in particular are examined: questioning terms ("huh?," "who?," etc.) and certain forms of repeats. As well, I show that in some contexts the action of initiating repair can be produced by a practice which does not ordinarily produce it. The moral of the article is that situated analysis must go hand-in-hand with more formal analysis in order to arrive at satisfactory accounts of discourse practices, and of discourse processes as well

Conversation analysis · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

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