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Peer reviewedMoerman, Michael – Language, 1977
The organization of repair in a corpus of conversations in the Lue, Yuan (or Myang), and Siamese dialects of Tai is examined with regard to the preference for self-correction described previously for an English corpus. In both, repair is an identically organized sequential phenomenon involving repair segments during conversation. (CHK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Language Usage, Pragmatics
Peer reviewedSchegloff, Emanuel A.; And Others – Language, 1977
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 producing a skewing in which self-repair predominates over other-repair, and to show the operation of a preference for self-repair.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Psycholinguistics
