Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
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Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

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Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

About this book

Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication, linguistics and sociology to explore how speakers address problems in their own talk and that of others, and how the practices of repair are interwoven with non-verbal aspects of communication such as gaze and gesture, across a variety of languages. Specific chapters highlight intersections between repair and epistemics, repair and turn construction, and repair and action formation. Aimed at researchers and students in sociolinguistics, speech communication, conversation analysis and the broader human and social sciences to which they contribute - anthropology, linguistics, psychology and sociology - this book provides a state-of-the-art review of conversational repair, while charting new directions for future study.

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Yes, you can access Conversational Repair and Human Understanding by Makoto Hayashi,Geoffrey Raymond,Jack Sidnell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistic Semantics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures
  3. Tables
  4. Contributors
  5. 1 Conversational repair and human understanding: an introduction
  6. 2 Ten operations in self-initiated, same-turn repair
  7. 3 Self-repair and action construction
  8. 4 On the place of hesitating in delicate formulations: a turn-constructional infrastructure for collaborative indiscretion
  9. 5 One question after another: same-turn repair in the formation of yes/no type initiating actions
  10. 6 On the interactional import of self-repair in the courtroom
  11. 7 Defensive mechanisms: I-mean-prefaced utterances in complaint and other conversational sequences
  12. 8 Availability as a trouble source in directive-response sequences
  13. 9 Epistemics, action formation, and other-initiation of repair: the case of partial questioning repeats
  14. 10 Proffering insertable elements: a study of other-initiated repair in Japanese
  15. 11 Alternative, subsequent descriptions
  16. 12 Huh? What? - a first survey in twenty-one languages
  17. Index