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Repairing self- and recipient-reference
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posted on 2014-07-21, 11:30 authored by Alexa Hepburn, Sue Wilkinson, Rebecca ShawThere are dedicated reference terms—in English—for self- and recipient reference (I and its
grammatical variants for self; you and its grammatical variants for recipient). These terms are invariant
across occasions of reference and, as such, are repaired much less commonly than are references
to third persons. In this article, we focus on four types of “trouble” addressed by repair to selfand
recipient reference: (a) indexing the wrong referent, (b) possible referential ambiguity in direct
reported speech, (c) masked scope and/or constituent membership of referent, and (d) masked relevance
of referent. We also show that repairs to self- or recipient reference are routinely not limited to
fixing problems of understanding but are also used in the service of the interactional task at hand.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONVolume
45Issue
2Pages
175 - 190 (16)Citation
HEPBURN, A., WILKINSON, S. and SHAW, R., 2012. Repairing self- and recipient-reference. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45 (2), pp. 175-190.Publisher
© Taylor & Francis GroupVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2012ISSN
0835-1813eISSN
1532-7973Publisher version
Language
- en