On the use of the term ‘repair’ and its application to disordered conversational speech
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.v1i2.199Keywords:
Speech pathology, conversation analysis, dysarthriaAbstract
Conversational repair is a commonly studied aspect of both normal and disordered human interaction. It has the potential to reveal a great deal about how speakers deal with problems in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction. However, the extent to which repair has been defined, classified, and then compared to such phenomena as repetitions, slips of the tongue, pauses, and fillers has not always been altogether consistent. This paper discusses the use of the term repair in a variety of disciplines and proposes a taxonomy of repair types. It is suggested that this will facilitate the quantification of repair in corpora of disordered conversation, allowing for comparisons of frequency counts across speakers, disorders, and time points.
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Ferguson, A. (1994). The influence of aphasia, familiarity and activity on conversational repair. Aphasiology, 8 (2): 143–15. doi:10.1080/02687039408248647
Ferguson, A. (1998). Conversational turn-taking and repair in fluent aphasia. Aphasiology, 12 (11): 1007–1031. doi:10.1080/02687039808249466
Ford, C. E. and Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2004). Conversation and phonetics: Essential connections. In E. Couper-Kuhlen and C. E. Ford (eds) Sound Patterns in Interaction: Crosslinguistic Studies of Phonetics and Prosody for Conversation 377–400. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
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Hutchby, I. and Wooffitt, R. (1998). Conversation Analysis. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Jasperson, R. (2002). Some linguistic aspects of closure cut-off. In C. E. Ford, B. A. Fox and S. A. Thompson (eds) The Language of Turn and Sequence 257–286. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jefferson, G. (1975). Error connection as an interactional resource. Language in Society, 3 (2): 181–199. doi:10.1017/S0047404500004334
Laakso, M. (1997). Oman puheen korjaukset sujuvien afaatikkojen keskustelussa (Selfrepairs in the conversations of fluent aphasics). Virittäjä, 101: 572–574.
Levelt, W. J. M. (1983). Monitoring and self-repair in speech. Cognition, 14 (1): 41–104. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(83)90026-4
Levinson, S. C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Oelschlaeger, M. L. and Damico, J. S. (2003). Word searches in aphasia: a case study of the collaborative responses of communicative partners. In C. Goodwin (ed.) Conversation and Brain Damage 211–227. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Perkins, L. (2003). Negotiating repair in aphasic conversation: interactional issues. In C. Goodwin (ed.) Conversation and Brain Damage 147–162. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sacks, H. (1972). An initial investigation of the usability of conversational data for doing sociology. In D. Sudnow (ed.) Studies in Social Interaction 31–74. New York: Free Press.
Schegloff, E. A. (1968). Sequencing in conversational openings. American Anthropologist, 70 (6): 1075–1095. doi:10.1525/aa.1968.70.6.02a00030
Schegloff, E. A. (1972). Notes on a conversational practice: formulating place. In D. Sudnow (ed.), Studies in Social Interaction 75–119. New York: Free Press.
Schegloff, E. A. (1993). Reflections on quantification in the study of conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 26 (1): 99–128. doi:10.1207/s15327973rlsi2601_5
Schegloff, E. A. (2002). When ‘others’ initiate repair. Applied Linguistics, 21 (2): 205–243. doi:10.1093/applin/21.2.205
Schegloff, E. A., Jefferson. G. and Sacks, H. (1977). The preference for self-correction in the organisation of repair in conversation. Language, 53 (2): 361–382. doi:10.2307/413107
Shriberg, E. (1994). Preliminaries to a Theory of Speech Disfluencies. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley.
Shriberg, E. E. (2001). To ‘errrr’ is human: Ecology and acoustics of speech disfluencies. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 31 (1): 153–169. doi:10.1017/S0025100301001128
Tarplee, C. (1996). Working on young children’s utterances: prosodic aspects of repetition during picture labeling. In E. Couper-Kuhlen, and M. Selting (eds) Prosody and Conversation 406–435. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2011-01-25
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Rutter, B. (2011). On the use of the term ‘repair’ and its application to disordered conversational speech. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 1(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.v1i2.199
