Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish
conversation
This paper explores other-initiated repair, or more
specifically, extended repair sequences. In extended cases, the
repair turn does not immediately resolve the trouble, and the
speaker needs to produce a new repair initiation.
Drawing on a collection of 458 other-initiations of
repair in naturally occurring everyday interaction in Finnish, we
show how the distribution of the outcomes of different types of
initiations clearly differs. Typically, candidate understandings and
open class repair initiations do not lead to extended sequences,
whereas repeats (with question words) are more often followed by a
second repair initiation. The type of trouble, as well as the
typological specificity of different initiations, explains the
outcomes of the repair sequences.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.When extensions are rare: Candidate understandings and open class
initiators
- 3.When extensions are more frequent: (Partial) repetitions of
trouble turn and repetitions with question words
- 4.Discussion
-
Notes
-
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