Egbert1996
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Egbert1996 |
| Author(s) | Maria Egbert |
| Title | Context sensitivity in conversation analysis: Eye gaze and the German repair initiator "bitte" |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Context, Cross-linguistic, Eye gaze, Repair, German |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 25 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 587–612 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404500020820 |
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Abstract
Just as turn-taking has been found to be both context-free and context-sensitive (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson 1974), the organization of repair is also shown here to be both context-free and context-sensitive. In a comparison of American and German conversation, repair can be shown to be context-free in that, basically, the same mechanism can be found across these two languages. However, repair is also sensitive to the linguistic inventory of a given language; in German, morphological marking, syntactic constraints, and grammatical congruity across turns are used as interactional resources. In addition, repair is sensitive to certain characteristics of social situations. The selection of a particular repair initiator, German bitte? ‘pardon?’, indexes that there is no mutual gaze between interlocutors; i.e., there is no common course of action. The selection of bitte? not only initiates repair; it also spurs establishment of mutual gaze, and thus displays that there is attention to a common focus. (Conversation analysis, context, cross-linguistic analysis, repair, gaze, telephone conversation, co-present interaction, grammar and interaction)
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