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The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation

Schegloff, Emanuel A., Jefferson, Gail, Sacks, Harvey·1977·Language
DOI 10.2307/413107
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An ‘organization of repair’ operates in conversation, addressed to recurrent problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding. Several features of that organization are introduced to explicate the mechanism which produces a strong empirical skewing in which self-repair predominates over other-repair, and to show the operation of a preference for self-repair in the organization of repair. Several consequences of the preference for self-repair for conversational interaction are sketched.

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  1. Laver, 1969, Work in Progress 3
  2. Parsons, 1937, The structure of social action
  3. Sacks, H. , and Schegloff, E. 1977. Two preferences in the organization of reference to persons in conversation and their interaction. To appear in Papers from the Boston University Conference on Ethnomethodology, ed. by Psathas, George .
  4. Bolinger, 1953, The life and death of words, American Scholar, 22
  5. Dubois, 1974, Berkeley studies in syntax and semantics, I, III.1
  6. Hockett, 1967, To honor Roman Jakobson
  7. Jefferson, 1972, Studies in social interaction, 294
  8. Garvey, 1975, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychology

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Authors
Schegloff, E. A., Jefferson, G., & Sacks, H.
Venue
Language
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1977-06
Volume
53
Issue
2
Pages
361-382
ISSN
  • 0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-0665
DOI
10.2307/413107
OpenAlex
W1980298376
Cited by
5,150
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 159 · 2025: 144 · 2024: 217 · 2023: 236 · 2022: 298 · 2021: 211 · 2020: 283 · 2019: 233 · 2018: 251 · 2017: 205 · 2016: 385 · 2015: 263 · 2014: 241 · 2013: 168 · 2012: 172
FWCI
158.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 17816 d)
Locations
  • Language (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
Keywords
self-correction, conversational repair, conversation, intelligibility, turn-taking

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