Other-initiated repair in Russian

• Authors: Julija Baranova
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article describes the interactional patterns and linguistic structures associated with otherinitiated repair, as observed in a corpus of video-recorded conversations in Russian. In the discussion of various repair cases special attention is given to the modifications that the trouble source turn undergoes in response to an open versus a restricted repair initiation. Speakers often modify their problematic turn in multiple ways at ones when responding to an open repair initiation. They can alter the word order of the problematic turn, change prosodic contour of the utterance, omit redundant elements and add more specific ones. By contrast, restricted repair initiations usually receive specific repair solutions that target only one problem at a time.

Keywords

EN

other-initiated repair; modifications; Russian

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

Dates

received

2014-09-30

accepted

2015-06-23

online

2015-09-29

Contributors

author

Julija Baranova

• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

References

• Benjamin, Trevor. 2013. “Signaling Trouble: On the Linguistic Design of Other-Initiation of Repair in English Conversation.”
• Bolden, Galina B. forthcoming. “Nu-Prefaced Responses in Russian Conversation.” In At the Intersection of Turn and Sequence: Turn-Initial Particles across Languages, edited by John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen. John Benjamins.
• ---. in press. “The Discourse Marker Nu in Russian Conversation.” In Nu and Its Relatives: A Discourse Marker across the Languages of Europe and beyond, edited by P. Auer and Y. Maschler. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
• ---. 2003. “Doing Being Late: The Use of the Russian Particle -to in Personal State Inquiries.” Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture 5: 3–27.
• ---. 2008. “Reopening Russian Conversations: The Discourse Particle–to and the Negotiation of Interpersonal Accountability in Closings.” Human Communication Research 34 (1): 99–136. [WoS]
• Bolden, Galina B. 2011. “On the Organization of Repair in Multiperson Conversation: The Case of ‘Other’-Selection in Other-Initiated Repair Sequences.” Research on Language & Social Interaction 44 (3): 237–62. doi:10.1080/08351813.2011.591835. [WoS][Crossref]
• Bolden, Galina B. 2012. “Across Languages and Cultures: Brokering Problems of Understanding in Conversational Repair.” Language in Society 41 (01): 97–121. doi:10.1017/S0047404511000923. [WoS][Crossref]
• ---. 2013. “Unpacking ‘Self’ Repair and Epistemics in Conversation.” Social Psychology Quarterly 76 (4): 314–42. [WoS]
• Bolden, Galina B., and Estefania Guimaraes. 2012. “Grammatical Flexibility as a Resource in Explicating Referents.” Research on Language & Social Interaction 45 (2): 156–74. doi:10.1080/08351813.2012.673861. [WoS][Crossref]
• Bolden, Galina B., and Jeffrey D Robinson. 2011. “Soliciting Accounts With Why-Interrogatives in Conversation.” Journal of Communication 61 (1): 94–119. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01528.x. [Crossref][WoS]
• Clark, Herbert H. 1996. Using Language. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Curl, Traci S. 2005. “Practices in Other-Initiated Repair Resolution: The Phonetic Differentiation of ‘Repetitions.’” Discourse Processes 39 (1): 1–43. doi:10.1207/s15326950dp3901_1. [Crossref]
• Dingemanse, Mark, Joe Blythe, and Tyko Dirksmeyer. (2014) “Formats for Other-Initiation of Repair across Languages: An Exercise in Pragmatic Typology.” Studies in Language 38, 1, 5–43. doi:10.1075/sl.38.1.01din. [WoS][Crossref]
• Dingemanse, Mark, and N. J. Enfield. 2015. “Other-Initiated Repair across Languages: Towards a Typology of Conversational Structures.” Open Linguistics 1 (1).
• Dingemanse, Mark, Francisco Torreira, and N. J. Enfield. 2013. “Is ‘Huh?’ a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items.” PloS One 8 (11): e78273. [WoS]
• Drew, Paul. 1997. “‘Open’ Class Repair Initiators in Response to Sequential Sources of Trouble in Conversation.” Journal of Pragmatics 28: 69–101. [Crossref]
• Dyakonova, Marina. 2004. “Information Structure Development: Evidence from the Acquisition of Word Order in Russian and English.” Nordlyd 32 (1). http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/60.
• Enfield, N. J., Mark Dingemanse, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Penelope Brown, Tyko Dirksmeyer, Paul Drew, et al. 2013. “Huh? What? – A First Survey in 21 Languages.” In Conversational Repair and Human Understanding, edited by Makoto Hayashi, Geoffrey Raymond, and Jack Sidnell, 343–80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Enfield, N. J., Paul Drew, and Julija Baranova. forthcoming. “Non-Minimal Sequences of Other-Initiation of Repair: A Cross-Linguistic Study.”
• Gisladottir, Rosa S. 2015. “Other-Initiated Repair in Icelandic.” Open Linguistics 1 (1). http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2015-0004/opli-2015-0004.xml.
• Hawkins, John A. 1983. Word Order Universals. New York: Academic Press.
• Heritage, John. 1984. “A Change of State Token and Aspects of Its Sequential Placement.” In Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis, edited by J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage, 299–345. Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• ---. 2013. “Epistemics in Conversation.” In The Handbook of Conversation Analysis, edited by Jack Sidnell and Tanya Stivers, 825. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Jefferson, Gail. 1972. “Side Sequences.” In Studies in Social Interaction, edited by David N. Sudnow, 294–338. New York: MacMillan/The Free Press.
• ---. 1987. “On Embedded and Exposed Correction in Conversation.” In Talk and Social Organization, edited by Graham Button and John R. E. Lee, 86–100. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
• Kendrick, Kobin H. 2015. “Other-Initiated Repair in English.” Open Linguistics 1 (1). http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2014-0009/opli-2014-0009.xml.
• Labov, William, and David Fanshel. 1977. Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy as Conversation. New York: Academic Press.
• Lerner, Gene H., Galina B. Bolden, Alexa Hepburn, and Jenny Mandelbaum. 2012. “Reference Recalibration Repairs: Adjusting the Precision of Formulations for the Task at Hand.” Research on Language & Social Interaction 45 (2): 191–212. doi:10.1080/08351813.2012.674190. [Crossref][WoS]
• Mazeland, Harrie, and Minna Zaman-Zadeh. 2004. “The Logic of Clarification. Some Observations about Word- Clarification Repairs in Finnish-as-a-Lingua-Franca Interactions.” In Second Language Conversations, edited by Rod Gardner and Johannes Wagner, 132–56. Advances in Applied Linguistics Series. London, New York: Continuum.
• Pulkina, I. M. 1984. A Short Russian Reference Grammar. Translated by V. Korotky. 7th ed. Moscow.
• Raymond, Geoffrey, and John Heritage. 2006. “The Epistemics of Social Relations: Owning Grandchildren.” Language in Society 35: 677–705. doi:10.1017 0 S0047404506060325.
• Robinson, Jeffrey D. 2006. “Managing Trouble Responsibility and Relationships during Conversational Repair.” Communication Monographs 73 (2): 137–61. [Crossref]
• ---. 2014. “What ‘What?’ Tells Us About How Conversationalists Manage Intersubjectivity.” Research on Language and Social Interaction 47 (2): 109–29. doi:10.1080/08351813.2014.900214. [Crossref]
• Robinson, Jeffrey D., and Galina B. Bolden. 2010. “Preference Organization of Sequence-Initiating Actions: The Case of Explicit Account Solicitations.” Discourse Studies 12 (4): 501–33. doi:10.1177/1461445610371051. [Crossref][WoS]
• Ross, John Robert. 1967. “Constraints on Variables in Syntax.” MIT.
• Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Gail Jefferson. 1974. “A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation.” Language 50 (4): 696–735. [Crossref]
• Schegloff, Emanuel A. 1993. “Reflections on Quantification in the Study of Conversation.” Research on Language & Social Interaction 26 (1): 99–128. doi:10.1207/s15327973rlsi2601_5. [Crossref]
• ---. 1997. “Practices and Actions: Boundary Cases of Other-Initiated Repair.” Discourse Processes 23 (3): 499–545. doi:10.1080/01638539709545001. [Crossref]
• ---. 2000. “When ‘Others’ Initiate Repair.” Applied Linguistics 21 (2): 205–43. doi:10.1093/applin/21.2.205. [Crossref]
• ---. 2004. “On Dispensability.” Research on Language & Social Interaction 37 (2): 95–149.
• ---. 2006. “Interaction: The Infrastructure for Social Institutions, the Natural Ecological Niche for Language, and the Arena in Which Culture Is Enacted.” In , edited by N. J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson, 70–96. Oxford: Berg.
• Schegloff, Emanuel A., Gail Jefferson, and Harvey Sacks. 1977. “The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation.” Language 53 (2): 361–82. [Crossref]
• Selting, Margret. 1996. “Prosody as an Activity-Type Distinctive Cue in Conversation: The Case of so-Called ‘Astonished’ Questions in Repair-Initiation.” In Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies, 231–70.
• Stivers, Tanya. 2007. “Alternative Recognitionals in Initial References to Persons.” In Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural, and Social Perspectives, edited by N. J. Enfield and Tanya Stivers, 73–96. Cambridge University Press.
• Timberlake, Alan. 2004. A Reference Grammar of Russian. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press.
• Tomlin, Russell S. 1986. Basic Word Order: Functional Principles. London: Croom-Helm.
• Wade, Terence. 2000. A Comprehensive Russian Grammar. Edited by Michael J. de Holman. 2nd ed. Oxford/ Malden, MA: Blackwell.
• Wilkinson, Sue, and Celia Kitzinger. 2006. “Surprise As an Interactional Achievement: Reaction Tokens in Conversation.” Social Psychology Quarterly 69 (2): 150–82. doi:doi:10.1177/019027250606900203. [Crossref]

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opli-2015-0019