New Directions in Research on Repair
| Number: | P86 |
| Organizer: | Wilkinson, Sue |
| Co-Organizer: | none |
| Abstract: | |
| 'Repair' is one of the central orders of organisation in talk-in-interaction and an essential mechanism for the maintenance of intersubjectivity (Schegloff, Jefferson and Sacks, 1977). Repair involves suspending the progressivity of the turn, the sequence or the otherwise ongoing action in order to deal with (ostensible) troubles in speaking, hearing or understanding. The papers in this panel address the organisation, technology, and interactional uses of repair, including its position and composition, mode of operation, and some of its interactional uses. They will draw on a wide variety of data sets, including ordinary everyday conversation and several varieties of 'institutional' talk, including telephone helplines and face-to-face counselling/therapy sessions. The topics/issues to be examined by panel members include: the boundary between repair and correction; the operation of repair in particular sequential environments; the composition of the repair segment; the technology of different repair operations; and the actions performed by repairs of different types. The discussion will integrate the findings of individual papers and reflect on their contributions to the domain of repair. Reference: Schegloff, E.A., Jefferson, G. and Sacks, H. (1977) The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation. Language, 53(2): 361-382. |
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