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Ho, Adrian K. and Björn H. Jernudd. 2000. Conversational repair in spoken Hong Kong Cantonese. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10 (2) : 205–225.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/japc

Annotation

This paper examines the process and mechanism of conversational repair in spoken Hong Kong Cantonese. This paper tests Levelt's supposition that the organization of repair is invariant, both cross-linguistically as cross-culturally. The paper also raises the hypothesis that personal and contextual factors are crucial variables which determine which type of repair will be socially acceptable (and therefore prominent) in a particular conversational setting.