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Formats for other-initiation of repair across languages

An exercise in pragmatic typology

 | Language & Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
 | School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Published online: 25 April 2014
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In conversation, people have to deal with problems of speaking, hearing, and understanding. We report on a cross-linguistic investigation of the conversational structure of other-initiated repair (also known as collaborative repair, feedback, requests for clarification, or grounding sequences). We take stock of formats for initiating repair across languages (comparable to English huh?, who?, y’mean X?, etc.) and find that different languages make available a wide but remarkably similar range of linguistic resources for this function. We exploit the patterned variation as evidence for several underlying concerns addressed by repair initiation: characterising trouble, managing responsibility, and handling knowledge. The concerns do not always point in the same direction and thus provide participants in interaction with alternative principles for selecting one format over possible others. By comparing conversational structures across languages, this paper contributes to pragmatic typology: the typology of systems of language use and the principles that shape them.
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Dingemanse, Mark, Seán G. Roberts, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Paul Drew, Simeon Floyd, Rosa S. Gisladottir, Kobin H. Kendrick, Stephen C. Levinson, Elizabeth Manrique, Giovanni Rossi, N. J. Enfield & Sonja Kotz
2015. Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems. PLOS ONE 10:9 ► pp. e0136100 ff. DOI logo
Levinson, Stephen C.
2015. Other-initiated repair in Yélî Dnye: Seeing eye-to-eye in the language of Rossel Island. Open Linguistics 1:1 DOI logo
Lilja, Niina
2014. Partial repetitions as other-initiations of repair in second language talk: Re-establishing understanding and doing learning. Journal of Pragmatics 71 ► pp. 98 ff. DOI logo
Dingemanse, Mark, Francisco Torreira, N. J. Enfield & Johan J. Bolhuis
2013. Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items. PLoS ONE 8:11 ► pp. e78273 ff. DOI logo
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