Kitzinger-etal2013

Kitzinger-etal2013
BibType	ARTICLE
Key	Kitzinger-etal2013
Author(s)	Celia Kitzinger, Gene H. Lerner, Jörg Zinken, Sue Wilkinson, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, Sonja Ellis
Title	Reformulating place
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Tag(s)	EMCA, Place, Conversation Analysis, Formulation, Place reference, Repair, Action formation, Turn design, Word selection
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Year	2013
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Journal	Journal of Pragmatics
Volume	55
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Pages	43–50
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DOI	10.1016/j.pragma.2013.05.007
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Abstract

This report examines what can be accomplished in conversation by reformulating a reference to a place using the practices of repair. It is based on an analysis of a collection of place references situated in second pair parts of adjacency pairs taken from a wide range of field recordings of talk-in-interaction. Not surprisingly, place references are sometimes reformulated so as to indicate a misspeaking or in pursuit of recipient recognition. At other times, however, we show that place references can be reformulated to more adequately implement the action of a turn in prosecuting the course of action of which it is a part. In these cases repairing a place reference can target a source of trouble associated with implementing the action of a turn at talk, and thus reformulating place can serve as a practical resource for accomplishing a range of interactional tasks. We conclude with a more complex case in which two reformulations are deployed in responding to a so-called ‘double-barrelled’ initiating action.

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