Wu2022b
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Wu2022b |
| Author(s) | Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu |
| Title | Gestural repair in Mandarin conversation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Attenuated gesture, Chinese, Discourse, Embodiment, Gestural repair, Gestural tying, Gesture, Iconic gesture, Intersubjectivity, Mandarin, Multimodality, Positioning of gesture, Repair, Repeat of gesture, Return gesture, Same-turn self-initiated repair, Social interaction, Word search |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 24 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 65-93 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614456211037451 |
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Abstract
Ever since Charles Goodwin’s seminal works on gaze, there has been a long-standing interest in Conversation Analysis in the interrelationship between talk and bodily conduct in the accomplishment of social action. Recently, a small but emerging body of research has explored the ways in which embodied conduct figures in the organization and operations of repair. In this article, I take up a similar theme and investigate the interaction between talk and iconic gestures in same-turn self-initiated repair in Mandarin conversation. The phenomenon I examine concerns the use of what I call “gestural repair.” The analysis focuses on how such repair can intertwine with talk in multi-stage operations in the progressivity and resolution of repair. The data are drawn from 50 hours of naturally-occurring conversations collected in China. Some unique features of such gestural repair observed in the Mandarin data are also discussed.
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