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Insertion repair
journal contribution
posted on 2014-08-19, 09:37 authored by Sue Wilkinson, Ann WeatherallInsertion repair is a practice in which speakers halt their talk-in-progress to go back and add something
else into the turn before resuming (e.g., inserting “blind” in “this girl’s fixed up on a da—
a blind date”). This article provides the first systematic examination of the technology of insertion
repair, based on an analysis of more than 500 instances. We first overview the practice of insertion
repair; then examine how the inserted material modifies the ongoing talk. By far the most common
modification is specifying: i.e., the inserted material modifies an original reference formulation so
as to specify either a unique referent or a particular type of referent. A second common modification
is intensifying: i.e., the inserted material modifies the original formulation so as to strengthen
it. Other—much less common—modifications are describing, adjusting, and adding. Finally, we
consider the relevance of our findings for conversation analytic work on repair, referring, and the
relationships between grammar and action and different orders of action.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONVolume
44Issue
1Pages
65 - 91 (27)Citation
WILKINSON, S. and WEATHERALL, A., 2011. Insertion repair. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44 (1), pp.65-91.Publisher
© Taylor & Francis GroupVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2011Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in the journal of Research on Language and Social Interaction on 23/02/2011, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2011.544136ISSN
0835-1813Publisher version
Language
- en