Inclined to better understanding—The coordination of talk and ‘leaning forward’ in doing repair

Rasmussen, Gitte

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2013.10.001

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“…Previous research has shown that head movements, such as lateral tilts or forward extensions of the head, can serve to occasion self-repair without a verbal OIR (Seo and Koshik, 2010) and that body movements, such as leaning forward, can co-occur with verbal OIRs (Rasmussen, 2013;Li, 2014). And indeed in sign language bodily-visual practices such as these rule (see Manrique, this issue).…”

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Other-initiated repair in English

Kendrick

2015

Open Linguistics

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Abstract:The practices of other-initiation of repair provide speakers with a set of solutions to one of the most basic problems in conversation: troubles of speaking, hearing, and understanding. Based on a collection of 227 cases systematically identified in a corpus of English conversation, this article describes the formats and practices of other-initiations of repair attested in the corpus and reports their quantitative distribution. In addition to straight other-initiations of repair, the identification of all possible cases also yielded a substantial proportion in which speakers use other-initiations to perform other actions, including non-serious actions, such as jokes and teases, preliminaries to dispreferred responses, and displays of surprise and disbelief. A distinction is made between otherinitiations that perform additional actions concurrently and those that formally resemble straight other-initiations but analyzably do not initiate repair as an action.

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Section: Bodily-visual Practicesmentioning

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Other-initiated repair in English

Kendrick

2015

Open Linguistics

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“…The gaze behaviour of B, and the alignment and attention of the participants that this indexes, is one factor that appears to influence the selection between interjection and question-word open other-initiations of repair (Dingemanse, Blythe, and Dirksmeyer 2014:16-7;Blythe 2015:302-305;Kendrick 2015a:180n8 Other-initiation of repair may come with movements of the body or head, such as leaning forward or turning towards A (Seo and Koshik 2010;Rasmussen 2014;Li 2014;Rossi 2015:262;Kendrick 2015a:178). These movement may start earlier or end later than the verbal component of the repair initiator, and they may increase perceptual access to A's anticipated redoing of T-1 as well as index (renewed) attention on B's part.…”

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A Coding Scheme for Other-initiated Repair Across Languages

2016

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Abstract:We provide an annotated coding scheme for other-initiated repair, along with guidelines for building collections and aggregating cases based on interactionally relevant similarities and differences. The questions and categories of the scheme are grounded in inductive observations of conversational data and connected to a rich body of work on other-initiated repair in conversation analysis. The scheme is developed and tested in a 12-language comparative project and can serve as a stepping stone for future work on other-initiated repair and the systematic comparative study of conversational structures.

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“…7 Another practice that was held at relatively similar frequencies across languages was leaning the upper body, which occurred 23.3% of the time in the three-language sample. In most of these cases the repair-initiating party leaned toward the addressee, displaying intensified attention and minimizing potential disruptions to the signal (see Rasmussen, 2014). In a few cases, particularly among signers, repair-initiators also leaned backward as a way to enable a wider visual channel, but whichever direction they leaned, both speakers and signers held this posture until sequence closure.…”

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Timing of Visual Bodily Behavior in Repair Sequences: Evidence From Three Languages

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Manrique

Rossi

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This article expands the study of other-initiated repair in conversation-when one party signals a problem with producing or perceiving another's turn at talk-into the domain of visual bodily behavior. It presents one primary cross-linguistic finding about the timing of visual bodily behavior in repair sequences: if the party who initiates repair accompanies their turn with a "hold"-when relatively dynamic movements are temporarily and meaningfully held static-this position will not be disengaged until the problem is resolved and the sequence closed. We base this finding on qualitative and quantitative analysis of corpora of conversational interaction from three unrelated languages representing two different modalities: Northern Italian, the Cha'palaa language of Ecuador, and Argentine Sign Language. The cross-linguistic similarities uncovered by this comparison suggest that visual bodily practices have been semiotized for similar interactive functions across different languages and modalities due to common pressures in face-to-face interaction.

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Inclined to better understanding—The coordination of talk and ‘leaning forward’ in doing repair

Cited by 35 publications

References 22 publications

Other-initiated repair in English

Other-initiated repair in English

A Coding Scheme for Other-initiated Repair Across Languages

Timing of Visual Bodily Behavior in Repair Sequences: Evidence From Three Languages

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