The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation

Schegloff, E. A., Jefferson, G., & Sacks, H. (1977). The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation. Language, 53(2), 361-382.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1977

Volume

53

Issue

2

Pages

361-382

DOI

10.2307/413107

DOI registrant

Cambridge University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/413107

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linguistics_semiotics

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Communication Repair
  • In its conversation-analytic form the catalogue is short — self-initiated self-repair (cheapest), other-initiated self-repair (cheap), other-initiated other-repair (socially costly), self-initiated other-repair (rare)

    This sourceFoundational conversation-analytic account of repair and its preference ordering: self-initiated self-repair, other-initiated self-repair, and other-initiated other-repair.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Supplies the general preference ordering of self-repair over other-repair in conversation, but not the four-term repair catalogue or its cost and rarity glosses, which the readable abstract does not state.

    “Several features of that organization are introduced to explicate the mechanism which produces a strong empirical skewing in which self-repair predominates over other-repair, and to show the operation of a preference for self-repair in the organization of repair.”

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Domain-specific

• Repair Sequence
  • The framework was developed by Emanuel Schegloff, Gail Jefferson, and Harvey Sacks and documented across diverse languages and interaction settings

    This sourceSchegloff, Jefferson and Sacks show a strong empirical skewing in which self-repair predominates over other-repair, a preference built into the organization of repair. Schegloff, Jefferson and Sacks's 1977 Language paper establishes the organization of repair and its preference for self-repair.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    “Emanuel A. Schegloff , Gail Jefferson and Harvey Sacks”

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Mechanisms

• Meeting Repair Move
  • The underlying craft has a name in conversation analysis: repair, the moment-to-moment machinery by which speakers detect and fix trouble in talk as it happens.

    This sourceDocuments the moment-to-moment machinery by which speakers detect and fix trouble in talk as it happens.

• Repair Target Selection
  • The discipline that keeps it honest is to match the repair to the diagnosed layer rather than the convenient one, to treat authority as a live candidate on every pass, and to scale intensity to stakes rather than to appetite.

    This sourceShows that other-initiated conversational repair first locates a specific trouble source and then gives the original speaker an opportunity to repair it; it does not address authority checks or scaling intensity to stakes.

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