Publications

Publication details [#11912]

Drew, Paul. 1997. 'Open' Class Repair Initiators in Response to Sequential Sources of Troubles in Conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (1) : 69–101. 33 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | repair | telephone conversation

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is shown that open class repair initiations find their motivation in the discontinuity of the turn and its prior sequence, emphasizing the importance of comprehension and noncomprehension in discourse analysis.