Registering and repair-initiating repeats in French talk-in-interaction

Persson, Rasmus

doi:10.1177/1461445615590721

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“…In our data, another type of action that can be accomplished by repeating all or part of the previous speaker's turn is registering. The distinctiveness of registering as an action type in relation to repair initiation has been described by Persson (2015), who documented the different prosodic formatting of the two actions in French, showing how this has consequences for the relevance of response to the repetition. Whereas a repair-initiating repetition calls for the recipient to provide a confirming response, a registering repetition 'may or may not leave a slot for an optional confirmation' (Persson 2015:597).…”

Section: O T H E R -R E P E T I T I O N S a S O T H E R A C T I O N Smentioning

confidence: 95%

Prosody and grammar of other-repetitions in Finnish: Repair initiations, registerings, and affectivity

Stevanovic¹,

Hakulinen²,

Vatanen

2020

Lang. Soc.

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We examine how other-repetitions in Finnish are used for repairing interactional problems in hearing and understanding and for registering what another has just said, describing how prosody and grammar interact in accomplishing these goals. In the repair-initiating repetitions, the pitch contours build a continuum of different degrees of falling pitch from moderate to steep, the latter being associated with some type of an affective stance. In the registering repetitions, the pitch fall is generally narrower than in the repair-initiations, the pitch span of the repetition turn typically matching that of the original turn. A notable feature of other-repetitions in Finnish is the use of particles (mostly ai and vai), which deal specifically with the informational aspects of other-repetitions, thus contributing to the design of both repair-initiating and registering repetitions. The article illustrates the complex layering of actions that Finnish as a ‘particle language’ affords. (Conversation analysis, other-repetition, prosody, grammar, Finnish, repair, registering, affectivity, response particle)

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Section: O T H E R -R E P E T I T I O N S a S O T H E R A C T I O N Smentioning

confidence: 95%

Prosody and grammar of other-repetitions in Finnish: Repair initiations, registerings, and affectivity

Stevanovic¹,

Hakulinen²,

Vatanen

2020

Lang. Soc.

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“…The data analysed in this study come from various corpora of audio recordings of naturally occurring social interaction in French, in a variety of everyday and institutional settings, including e.g. calls between acquaintances, radio phone-in talk, and various types of service encounters (see Persson 2015). The collection of repetitions is quite diversified with respect to which type of setting the recording is drawn from, but for the selection of instances to present in this article, the data sources with the highest acoustic quality have been prioritised.…”

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“…The overarching objective of this paper is to reconsider some results from an interactional linguistic study (Persson 2015), concerning an exemplary intonation pattern (salient initial accent + low primary accent), in the light of the debate about intonational meaning and its context-(in)dependence. To do this, the intonation contour is first analysed, and contrasted with other prosodic options, in the context of next-turn other-repetition (Section 4).…”

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On some functions of salient initial accents in French talk-in-interaction: Intonational meaning and the interplay of prosodic, verbal and sequential properties of talk

Persson

2018

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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The question of whether and how intonation patterns bear meanings is an old one, usually evaluated with reference to imagined or elicited speech. This study takes an interactional linguistic approach instead, examining intonation and meaning in naturally occurring interaction. The pattern considered here is a French intonation contour involving a salient initial accent and a low primary accent. This intonation pattern could be analysed as the so-called accent d'insistance, which is often said to have pragmatic meanings such as intensification and contrastive focus. This article analyses the uses of this contour in repeats. When used in repeats of an interlocutor's speech, the contour indicates unproblematic receipt of the repeated talk, making a confirming response optional, and contrasts with a final rise pattern used in repeats that initiate repair and request confirmation. However, in two other types of repetitions (self-repetition of a previously made assessment, and modified self-repetition for correction purposes), there is indeed interactional evidence supporting the argument that the contour helps convey the pragmatic meanings intensification and contrastive focus, respectively. It is argued that all of these meanings are achieved through the interplay of semiotic resources of several kinds (prosodic, verbal and sequential properties of talk), and that the contour itself has no inherent, context-independent meaning. The empirical findings presented suggest that the autonomy of intonation in the achievement of meaning has been overemphasised.

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“…To complete our survey, I present a case of registering what another has said, a type of action that has been already documented in the literature (e.g. Sorjonen 1996;Schegloff 1997;Persson 2015). Registering is alternative to initiating repair in that, instead of signaling a problem of hearing or understanding, the speaker acknowledges receipt of the preceding talk, which is 'taken in' rather than problematized.…”

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confidence: 99%

The prosody of other-repetition in Italian: A system of tunes

Rossi

2020

Lang. Soc.

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As part of the project reported on in this special issue, the present study provides an overview of the types of action accomplished by other-repetition in Italian, with particular reference to the variety of the language spoken in the northeastern province of Trento. The analysis surveys actions within the domain of initiating repair, actions that extend beyond initiating repair, and actions that are alternative to initiating repair. Pitch contour emerges as a central design feature of other-repetition in Italian, with six nuclear contours associated with distinct types of action, sequential trajectories, and response patterns. The study also documents the interplay of pitch contour with other prosodic features (pitch span and register) and visible behavior (head nods, eyebrow movements). (Repetition, conversation, prosody, intonation, action, Italian)*

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Registering and repair-initiating repeats in French talk-in-interaction

Cited by 25 publications

References 42 publications

Prosody and grammar of other-repetitions in Finnish: Repair initiations, registerings, and affectivity

Prosody and grammar of other-repetitions in Finnish: Repair initiations, registerings, and affectivity

On some functions of salient initial accents in French talk-in-interaction: Intonational meaning and the interplay of prosodic, verbal and sequential properties of talk

The prosody of other-repetition in Italian: A system of tunes

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