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The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
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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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“What is clear is that other initiations of repair 'overwhelmingly yield self-corrections' (Schegloff et al, 1977: 376)”
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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
- OpenAlex
- W1980298376
- Cited by
- 5,150
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- 15
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- FWCI
- 158.58
- Type
- journal article
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- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language (publishedVersion)
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- 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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