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Publication details [#14134]

Bazzanella, Carla and Rossana Damiano. 1999. The interactional handling of misunderstanding in everyday conversations. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (6) : 817–836.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

Based on an Italian corpus: this paper documents the handling process of linguistic misunderstanding: the author of the repair, the negotiation phases, the collocation of the repair, non-linguistic issues. It is concluded that misunderstanding should be seen as a continuum of comprehension and miscomprehension, rather than a polar process (absence/presence of comprehension).