Bolden2011
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Galina B. Bolden |
| Title | On the organization of repair in multiperson conversation: the case of “other”-selection in other-initiated repair sequences |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, epistemics, progressivity, repair |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 44 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 237–262 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2011.591835 |
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Abstract
This article examines a previously undocumented way in which the presence of more than two interlocutors matters for the organization of repair (Schegloff, Jefferson, & Sacks, 1977): when the repair initiation is addressed to—and thereby selects as the next speaker—somebody other than the speaker of the trouble-source turn (“other”-selection, for short). The speaker of the trouble-source turn is ordinarily the one who is selected to repair it (Sacks, Schegloff, & Jefferson, 1974). Under what circumstances, then, is “other”-selection used? The analysis shows that, while rare, “other”-selection in other-initiation of repair is a systematically deployed practice. In selecting somebody other than the speaker of the trouble-source turn to provide a repair solution, the repair initiator orients to two broad considerations (sometimes concurrently): progressivity and social epistemics. The article examines how these considerations play out in a variety of contexts and considers implications of “other”-selection for our understanding of the repair organization.
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