2009
DOI: 10.1080/03637750902828446
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Beyond Answering: Repeat-Prefaced Responses in Conversation

Abstract: The article presents a conversation analytic investigation of one technique for responding to questions in naturally occurring social interactions: repeating the question verbatim in part or as a whole before providing a required response. A close examination of production features of repeat prefacing in Russian demonstrates that it is used by conversationalists to resist agendas and presuppositions generated by questions and other sequence initiating actions. The study shows that some repeat prefaces characte… Show more

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“…Finally, the core collection also excluded repeats with final-rising intonation that function as answer prefaces (Schegloff, 1997;Bolden, 2009), other-initiations of repair in reported speech (e.g., I was like, excuse me), and laughter-infused repeats that formally resemble other-initiations but do joke appreciation (Jefferson, 1972).…”
Section: The Corpus and Collectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, the core collection also excluded repeats with final-rising intonation that function as answer prefaces (Schegloff, 1997;Bolden, 2009), other-initiations of repair in reported speech (e.g., I was like, excuse me), and laughter-infused repeats that formally resemble other-initiations but do joke appreciation (Jefferson, 1972).…”
Section: The Corpus and Collectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These studies show, how participants employ procedures -such as no-knowledge-responses, no-knowledge-prefaces (Keevallik, 2011) or question-repeats (Bolden, 2009) -to problematize epistemic responsibility in a conversational sequence and/or to "resist, sidestep, or curtail the constraints imposed by questioners' interactional agendas" (Bolden, 2009, p. 140). …”
Section: Interactional Identities In Explanatory Discoursementioning
confidence: 97%
“…On a related note, recent conversation analytic studies on techniques of delaying or avoiding answering in question-answer-sequences (Bolden, 2009;Keevallik, 2011) are of particular relevance for the study at hand. These studies show, how participants employ procedures -such as no-knowledge-responses, no-knowledge-prefaces (Keevallik, 2011) or question-repeats (Bolden, 2009) -to problematize epistemic responsibility in a conversational sequence and/or to "resist, sidestep, or curtail the constraints imposed by questioners' interactional agendas" (Bolden, 2009, p. 140).…”
Section: Interactional Identities In Explanatory Discoursementioning
confidence: 98%
“…Repeats with a similar function have been identified in English (Jefferson 1972;Quirk et al 1972;Robinson and Kevoe-Feldman 2010;Sidnell 2010;Robinson 2013), German (Selting 1996), Finnish (Sorjonen 1996), Chinese (Wu 2006), and Russian (Bolden 2009). Benjamin and Walker (2013) analyse a similar repeat practice in English, the function of which is to convey that the target utterance is "wrong and in need of correction" (p. 108).…”
Section: The Role Of Intonation In Marking the Function Of Repeatsmentioning
confidence: 98%