The organization of repair in Yoruba conversation

In any conversational event, co-participants are guided by rules which ensure a smooth conversation. According to Sacks et al. [1974:700] some of these rules are that "one party speaks at a time" and also that "speakerchange recurs, or at least occurs." Quite often these rules ar...

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Autor principal:	Femi Akindele
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1991
Materias:	conversational analysis discourse Yoruba Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:aa1260fbcafb43e2a338d812f96602ad2021-11-19T03:54:20ZThe organization of repair in Yoruba conversation10.32473/sal.v22i2.1074230039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/aa1260fbcafb43e2a338d812f96602ad1991-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107423https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XIn any conversational event, co-participants are guided by rules which ensure a smooth conversation. According to Sacks et al. [1974:700] some of these rules are that "one party speaks at a time" and also that "speakerchange recurs, or at least occurs." Quite often these rules are broken as was found in Schegloff et al. [1977] for American English conversation and confirmed by Moerman [1977] for Thai conversation. I argue, therefore, in this paper following Schegloff et al. [1977:381] that if conversation is composed of systems of rules which are integrated, then it will have a source of "trouble" related to the modes of their integration. And if it has intrinsic sources of trouble, then it will have a mechanism for dealing with them intrinsically. I further argue that an adequate theory of the organisation of conversation in natural language in general, as proposed by Schegloff et al. [1977], and in Yoruba specifically, will need an account of the organisation of repair. I suggest that repair mechanisms in Yoruba will include those suggested by Schegloff et al. [1977] and supported by Moerman [1977], namely: self-repair which can issue from self-initiation or other initiation and other repair which arises from self-initiation or other initiation. I conclude that these repair mechanisms are indices of participants' orientation to the making of Yoruba conversational interaction.Femi AkindeleLibraryPress@UFarticleconversational analysisdiscourseYorubaPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 22, Iss 2 (1991)
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description	In any conversational event, co-participants are guided by rules which ensure a smooth conversation. According to Sacks et al. [1974:700] some of these rules are that "one party speaks at a time" and also that "speakerchange recurs, or at least occurs." Quite often these rules are broken as was found in Schegloff et al. [1977] for American English conversation and confirmed by Moerman [1977] for Thai conversation. I argue, therefore, in this paper following Schegloff et al. [1977:381] that if conversation is composed of systems of rules which are integrated, then it will have a source of "trouble" related to the modes of their integration. And if it has intrinsic sources of trouble, then it will have a mechanism for dealing with them intrinsically. I further argue that an adequate theory of the organisation of conversation in natural language in general, as proposed by Schegloff et al. [1977], and in Yoruba specifically, will need an account of the organisation of repair. I suggest that repair mechanisms in Yoruba will include those suggested by Schegloff et al. [1977] and supported by Moerman [1977], namely: self-repair which can issue from self-initiation or other initiation and other repair which arises from self-initiation or other initiation. I conclude that these repair mechanisms are indices of participants' orientation to the making of Yoruba conversational interaction.
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The organization of repair in Yoruba conversation

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