This book studies four self-initiated same-turn repair strategies in
talk-in-interaction relative to each other, namely: recycling,
replacement, insertion, and aborting. Based on a thorough analysis of a
Hungarian corpus, as well as the previous results on another nine
languages, this book proposes a preference hierarchy model of repair
operations that interprets same-turn repair operations relative to each
other.
This preference hierarchy model reinterprets the relationship between
the principle of intersubjectivity and the principle of progressivity in
talk-in-interaction. Saying that the principle of maintaining
progressivity also has an impact on the principle of maintaining
intersubjectivity (not only vice versa), it supposes a two-way
relationship between intersubjectivity and progressivity. The speakers'
possible choices of repair operations relating to self-repair depend on
at least three factors: the function of repair operations, the number of
respects in which they override the preference for progressivity, and
the morphosyntactic structure of the language used. This also highlights
the interaction between grammar and pragmatics.
Although the object theoretical background of the book is conversation
analysis, the methodological apparatus of conversation analysis is
supplied by other methods to enhance the reliability of the results.
This book will provide interesting reading not only for conversation
analysts, but for all who are interested in talk-in-interaction and
linguistic theorising in general.
