Wu2006
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Wu2006 |
| 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 initiation, Mandarin Chinese |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Discourse Processes |
| Volume | 41 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 67–109 |
| URL | Link |
| 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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