On repeats and responses in Finnish conversations

Sorjonen, Marja-Leena

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“…Specifically, when participants in sequence-final environments twice pass up the chance to initiate a sequence, conversations enter a state of ''topic attrition' ' (1983a: 21). Similar observations about acknowledgment tokens and assessments have been made for Australian English (Gardner, 2001), Finnish (Sorjonen, 1996(Sorjonen, , 2001, Korean (Hayashi and Yoon, 2009), and Japanese (Hayashi and Yoon, 2009;Iwasaki, 1997;Tanaka, 2010). This article builds on these studies by describing how English-speaking participants use acknowledgment tokens, assessments, and other closure-implicative objects in managing the practical issues related to lapses in conversational interaction.…”

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confidence: 52%

Sequence recompletion: A practice for managing lapses in conversation

Hoey

2017

Journal of Pragmatics

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Conversational interaction occasionally lapses as topics become exhausted or as participants are left with no obvious thing to talk about next. In this article I look at episodes of ordinary conversation to examine how participants resolve issues of speakership and sequentiality in lapse environments. In particular, I examine one recurrent phenomenon---sequence recompletion---whereby participants bring to completion a sequence of talk that was already treated as complete. Using conversation analysis, I describe four methods for sequence recompletion: [ 4 _ T D $ D I F F ] turn-exiting, action redoings, delayed replies, and post-sequence transitions. With this practice, participants use verbal and vocal resources to locally manage their participation framework when ending one course of action and potentially starting up a new one.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 52%

Sequence recompletion: A practice for managing lapses in conversation

Hoey

2017

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Other conversation analytic studies have also examined repeats by different speakers (e.g., Couper-Kuhlen, 1996;Hellerman, 2003;Schegloff, 1996;Sorjonen, 1996;Tarplee, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

"No no no" and Other Types of Multiple Sayings in Social Interaction

Stivers¹

2004

Human Communication Research

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Relying on the methodology of conversation analysis, this article examines a practice in ordi-If I was told anything that was a theory, I would say, "No, no! That does not interest me."-Ludwig Wittgenstein C onversation analytic researchers across the disciplines of communication, linguistics, and sociology have, for more than 30 years, worked to describe and explicate "the competences that ordinary speakers use and rely on in participating in intelligible, socially organized interaction"

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“…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).…”

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Other-initiated repair in Italian

Rossi

2015

Open Linguistics

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This article describes the interactional patterns and linguistic structures associated with other-initiated repair, as observed in a corpus of video recorded conversation in the Italian language (Romance). The article reports findings specific to the Italian language from the comparative project that is the topic of this special issue. While giving an overview of all the major practices for other-initiation of repair found in this language, special attention is given to (i) the functional distinctions between different open strategies (interjection, question words, formulaic), and (ii) the role of intonation in discriminating alternative restricted strategies, with a focus on different contour types used to produce repetitions. IntroductionSocial interaction in any language necessitates a system for dealing with "problems in speaking, hearing and understanding" (Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks 1977). This system involves both procedures for signalling problems and others for solving them. This study focusses on a central domain of this system in which the problem is signalled by the recipient of some talk and is solved by the speaker of that talkwhat is referred to as other-initiated repair (OIR). The data used are video recordings of naturally occurring interaction among speakers of Italian -one of the languages investigated in the comparative project that is the topic of this special issue. After a brief description of the Italian language ( § 2) and of the procedures of data collection ( § 3), the article begins by illustrating the structure of OIR sequences ( § 4). It then surveys all the major practices for other-initiation of repair found in Italian ( § 5), covering various kinds of open and restricted strategies. In this survey, special attention is given to (i) the functional distinctions between different open strategies (interjection, question words, formulaic), and (ii) the role of intonation in discriminating alternative restricted strategies, with a focus on different contour types used to produce repetitions. Finally, the article overviews some of the morphosyntacitc devices of Italian dedicated to OIR ( § 6) and the actions produced through OIR practices besides initiating repair ( § 7). The conclusion situates the findings in the cross-linguistic perspective pursued in this special issue. The Italian languageItalian is spoken by over 60 million people in Italy, Southern Switzerland, and by migrant communities in several other countries including the United States, France, and Canada (Lewis, Simons, and Fennig 2014). Descriptions of the language can be found in many reference and pedagogical grammars (e.g. Lepschy

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On repeats and responses in Finnish conversations

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Sequence recompletion: A practice for managing lapses in conversation

Sequence recompletion: A practice for managing lapses in conversation

"No no no" and Other Types of Multiple Sayings in Social Interaction

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