Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

398 Pages·2013·13.871 MB·English

by  Makoto Hayashi, Geoffrey Raymond, Jack Sidnell (Eds.)

Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
Humansareimperfect,andproblemsofspeaking,hearingandunderstanding
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
bringstogetherateamofscholarsfromthefieldsofanthropology,commu-
nication,linguisticsandsociologytoexplorehowspeakersaddressproblems
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 avarietyoflanguages.Specificchaptershighlightintersec-
tionsbetweenrepairandepistemics,repairandturnconstruction,andrepair
andactionformation.Aimedatresearchersandstudentsinsociolinguistics,
speech communication, conversation analysis and the broader human and
social sciences to which they contribute – anthropology, linguistics, psy-
chology and sociology – this book provides a state-of-the-art review of
conversationalrepair,whilechartingnewdirectionsforfuturestudy.
makoto hayashi isAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofEastAsian
LanguagesandCulturesattheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign.
geoffrey raymond is Associate Professor of Sociology at the
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara.
jack sidnell isAssociateProfessorofAnthropologyattheUniversityof
Toronto.
Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
Editors
PaulDrew,MarjorieHarnessGoodwin,JohnJ.Gumperz,DeborahSchiffrin
1 DiscourseStrategiesJohnJ.Gumperz
2 LanguageandSocialIdentityeditedbyJohnJ.Gumperz
3 TheSocialConstructionofLiteracyJennyCook-Gumperz
4 Politeness:SomeUniversalsinLanguageUsagePenelopeBrownandStephenC.
Levinson
5 DiscourseMarkersDeborahSchiffrin
6 TalkingVoices:Repetition,Dialogue,andImageryinConversationalDiscourse
DeborahTannen
7 ConductingInteraction:PatternsofBehaviourinFocusedEncountersAdam
Kendon
8 TalkatWork:InteractioninInstitutionalSettingseditedbyPaulDrewandJohn
Heritage
9 GrammarinInteraction:AdverbialClausesinAmericanEnglishConversations
CeciliaE.Ford
10 CrosstalkandCultureinSino-AmericanCommunicationLindaW.L.Young(with
forewordbyJohnJ.Gumperz)
11 AIDSCounselling:InstitutionalInteractionandClinicalPracticeAnssiPerakyla
12 ProsodyinConversation:InteractionalStudieseditedbyElizabethCouper-
KuhlenandMargretSelting
13 InteractionandGrammareditedbyElinorOchs,EmanuelA.Schegloffand
SandraA.Thompson
14 CredibilityinCourt:CommunicativePracticesintheCamorraTrialsMarco
Jacquemet
15 InteractionandtheDevelopmentofMindA.J.Wootton
16 TheNewsInterview:JournalistsandPublicFiguresontheAirStevenClayman
andJohnHeritage
17 GenderandPolitenessSaraMills
18 LaughterinInteractionPhilipGlenn
19 MattersofOpinion:TalkingaboutPublicIssuesGregMyers
20 CommunicationinMedicalCare:InteractionbetweenPrimaryCarePhysicians
andPatientseditedbyJohnHeritageandDouglasMaynard
21 InOtherWords:VariationinReferenceandNarrativeDeborahSchiffrin
22 LanguageinLateModernity:InteractioninanUrbanSchoolBenRampton
23 DiscourseandIdentityeditedbyAnnaDeFina,DeborahSchiffrinandMichael
Bamberg
24 ReportingTalk:ReportedSpeechinInteractioneditedbyElizabethHoltand
RebeccaClift
25 TheSocialConstructionofLiteracy,2ndEditioneditedbyJennyCook-Gumperz
26 TalkingVoices,2ndEditionbyDeborahTannen
27 ConversationAnalysiseditedbyJackSidnell
28 Impoliteness:UsingLanguagetoCauseOffenceJonathanCulpeper
29 TheMoralityofKnowledgeinConversationeditedbyTanyaStivers,Lorenza
MondadaandJakobSteensig
30 ConversationalRepairandHumanUnderstandingeditedbyMakotoHayashi,
GeoffreyRaymondandJackSidnell

Conversational Repair and
Human Understanding
Edited by
Makoto Hayashi
UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign
Geoffrey Raymond
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara
Jack Sidnell
UniversityofToronto
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Contents
List offigures pageix
List oftables x
List ofcontributors xi
1 Conversationalrepair andhumanunderstanding:
an introduction 1
makoto hayashi, geoffrey raymond,
and jack sidnell
2 Ten operationsinself-initiated,same-turn repair 41
emanuel a. schegloff
3 Self-repair andaction construction 71
paul drew, traci walker, and richard ogden
4 On the place ofhesitatingin delicate formulations:
a turn-constructional infrastructure for collaborative
indiscretion 95
gene h. lerner
5 One questionafter another: same-turnrepair inthe formation
of yes/no type initiating actions 135
geoffrey raymond and john heritage
6 On the interactionalimport of self-repair inthe courtroom 172
tanya romaniuk and susan ehrlich
7 Defensive mechanisms: I-mean-prefaced utterances in complaint
and other conversational sequences 198
douglas w. maynard
8 Availability as atrouble source indirective-response
sequences 234
mardi kidwell
vii
viii Contents
9 Epistemics, action formation,and other-initiation of repair:
the case ofpartialquestioning repeats 261
jeffrey d. robinson
10 Proffering insertable elements:a study of other-initiated
repair inJapanese 293
makoto hayashi and kaoru hayano
11 Alternative,subsequent descriptions 322
jack sidnell and rebecca barnes
12 Huh? What? – afirst surveyin twenty-one languages 343
n. j. enfield, mark dingemanse, julija baranova,
joe blythe, penelope brown, tyko dirksmeyer,
paul drew, simeon floyd, sonja gipper, ro´sa s.
g´ıslado´ttir, gertie hoymann, kobin h. kendrick,
stephen c. levinson, lilla magyari, elizabeth
manrique, giovanni rossi, lila san roque, and
francisco torreira
Index 381