Cut-off or particle—Devices for initiating self-repair in conversation

Laakso, Minna; Sorjonen, Marja-Leena

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2009.09.004

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“…4-7). Her utterance in prefaced with eiku, 'no but', which implies that the speaker is about to abandon or at least to postpone her prior action (Laakso and Sorjonen, 2010). So, it seems that the cantor is searching for a warrant for what she has proposed.…”

Section: Between Proposal and Accessmentioning

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Establishing joint decisions in a dyad

Stevanovic

2012

Discourse Studies

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This study analyses joint decisions. Drawing on video-recorded planning meetings in a workplace context as data, and on conversation analysis as a method, I investigate what is needed for a proposal to get turned into a joint decision: How do people negotiate the outcome of the decision-making processes in terms of whether they indeed comprise new decisions and whether these decisions are really joint ones? This study identifies three essential components in arriving at joint decisions (access, agreement, commitment), and discusses two other possible outcomes of decision-making processes – non-decisions and unilateral decisions – as being a direct result of the deployment of the same components. These observations help explain the exact mechanisms involved in approving and rejecting proposals in joint decision-making settings, as well as the ways in which people may negotiate their rights and obligations to participate in decision-making processes.

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Section: Between Proposal and Accessmentioning

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Establishing joint decisions in a dyad

Stevanovic

2012

Discourse Studies

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“…It has been studied for its organizational features, relevance to syntax, as well as its interactional functions (e.g. Jefferson 1974;Schegloff 1979Schegloff , 1987Goodwin 1981;Hayashi 1994;Sparks 1994;Wong 1994;Tao 1995;Ford, Hayashi & Jasperson 1996;Fincke 1999;Laakso & Sorjonen 2007, 2010Rieger 2003;Zhang 1998Zhang , 2000Zhang & Luke 2000;Luke & Zhang 2001;Uhmann 2001;Wouk 2005). The operation of same-turn self-repair usually leads to substitution of lexical items, insertion of sentence constituents, or abandonment of a sentence-in-progress in favor of a structurally different sentence.…”

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Insertion as a self-repair device and its interactional motivations in Chinese conversation

Luke

Zhang

2010

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Conversational repair has been studied for its organizational features, relationship with syntax, and interactional functions. This paper focuses on one particular type of same-turn self-repair, namely, insertions. Examining in detail a collection of insertions culled from a corpus of naturally occurring conversational data in Mandarin Chinese, an investigation has been carried out on the forms and functions of insertions in their sequential contexts. In terms of form and organization, two kinds of insertion are identified: local and global. 'Local' insertions operate on trouble-sources located within NPs, VPs, and sentences, achieving in most cases the modification of a reference or a predication. 'Global' insertions tend to be used to supplement a narrative with background information designed to make the point of the narrative more readily understood or better appreciated by the recipient. An in-depth analysis of insertions in their situational and sequential contexts reveals a variety of interactional motivations, including facilitating the recognizability of references, doing alignment and identity work, contributing to the construction of accounts, and providing backgrounding information in the delivery of narratives.

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“…(The proposal was about a Sermon Hymn, which precedes the sermon). The counter-proposal is, nonetheless, prefaced with the particle siis 'see'/'I mean,' which marks it as an upshot of what has been said before (Laakso and Sorjonen, 2010), making it appear as an offer of a solution to the problem mentioned by the first speaker. In so doing, the recipient implicitly stresses the relevance of the original proposal and recognizes his co-participant's right to have included it into the participants' local interactional agenda.…”

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Displays of uncertainty and proximal deontic claims: The case of proposal sequences

Stevanovic

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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Joint planning consists of people making proposals for future actions and events, and others accepting or rejecting these proposals. While proposals convey their speakers' judgments of some ideas as feasible, however, in anticipation of and in an attempt to pre-empt the recipients' rejection of their proposals, the speakers may begin to express doubt with the feasibility of their proposals. It is such ''post-proposal displays of uncertainty,'' and their interactional corollaries, that this paper focuses on. Drawing on video-recorded planning meetings as data, and conversation analysis as a method, I describe three ways for the recipients to respond to post-proposal displays of uncertainty: the recipients may (1) overcome, (2) confirm, or (3) dispel their co-participants' doubts. Even if the outcome of the proposal, in each case, is its abandonment, the analysis points out to important differences in how these response options treat the first speakers' ''proximal deontic claims'' --that is, their implicit assertions of rights to control the participants' local interactional agenda. The paper concludes by discussing the idea of proximal deontics with reference to other related notions.

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Cut-off or particle—Devices for initiating self-repair in conversation

Cited by 49 publications

References 12 publications

Establishing joint decisions in a dyad

Establishing joint decisions in a dyad

Insertion as a self-repair device and its interactional motivations in Chinese conversation

Displays of uncertainty and proximal deontic claims: The case of proposal sequences

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