Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan
3. Self-repair in Mandarin and Cantonese: Delaying the next item due in casual conversation and news interviews
Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan
Wei Zhang [+]
Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Guest Research Professor
Angela Chan
City University of Hong Kong
Description
In spontaneous talk-in-interaction, participants often need to attend to recurrent problems in speaking, hearing and understanding. Such recurrent problems are studied under the rubric of ‘repair’ (Schegloff et al. 1977).The study reported here focuses on a forward-oriented repair practice taking place around the linking particle (LP) between a modifier and the head noun in a noun phrase with a [modifier + LP + noun] construction.