Or-Prefacing in the Organization of Self-Initiated Repair

TY - JOUR

T1 - Or-Prefacing in the Organization of Self-Initiated Repair

AU - Lerner, Gene H.

AU - Kitzinger, Celia

PY - 2015/2/25

Y1 - 2015/2/25

N2 - This report identifies a distinct, and distinctly positioned, element of the repair segment—the repair preface—and focuses on or-prefacing to introduce the practice of repair prefacing and to develop an analysis of one preface type. Although or-prefaced repairs do substitute one formulation for another, the or-preface shows that the trouble source formulation is not being discarded altogether, thereby mitigating the reparative character of the repair operation. We also examine expanded or-prefaced repair segments for what they reveal about the part or-prefacing plays in repair. Additionally, and as part of our explication of repair prefacing, we show how some same-TCU repairs (with and without or-prefaces) can be mounted without progressivity-disrupting hitches or alerts. Data are in American and British English.

AB - This report identifies a distinct, and distinctly positioned, element of the repair segment—the repair preface—and focuses on or-prefacing to introduce the practice of repair prefacing and to develop an analysis of one preface type. Although or-prefaced repairs do substitute one formulation for another, the or-preface shows that the trouble source formulation is not being discarded altogether, thereby mitigating the reparative character of the repair operation. We also examine expanded or-prefaced repair segments for what they reveal about the part or-prefacing plays in repair. Additionally, and as part of our explication of repair prefacing, we show how some same-TCU repairs (with and without or-prefaces) can be mounted without progressivity-disrupting hitches or alerts. Data are in American and British English.

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U2 - 10.1080/08351813.2015.993844

DO - 10.1080/08351813.2015.993844

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84924169994

VL - 48

SP - 58

EP - 78

JO - Research on Language and Social Interaction

JF - Research on Language and Social Interaction

SN - 0835-1813

IS - 1

ER -