Other-initiated repair in Icelandic

• Authors: Rosa S. Gisladottir
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The ability to repair problems with hearing or understanding in conversation is critical for successful communication. This article describes the linguistic practices of other-initiated repair (OIR) in Icelandic through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of video-recorded conversations. The study draws on the conceptual distinctions developed in the comparative project on repair described in the introduction to this issue. The main aim is to give an overview of the formats for OIR in Icelandic and the type of repair practices engendered by them. The use of repair initiations in social actions not aimed at solving comprehension problems is also briefly discussed. In particular, the interjection ha has a rich usage extending beyond open other-initiation of repair. By describing the linguistic machinery for other-initiated repair in Icelandic, this study contributes to the typology of conversational structure and to the still nascent field of Icelandic social interaction studies.

Keywords

EN

other-initiated repair; conversation analysis; Icelandic

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Open Linguistics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2014-09-29

accepted

2015-01-22

online

2015-03-22

Contributors

author

Rosa S. Gisladottir

• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opli-2015-0004