Publications

Publication details [#48657]

Greer, Tim. 2008. Accomplishing difference in bilingual interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair. Multilingua 27 (1-2) : 99–127.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | conversational analysis | pragmatic function | repair | translation

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

Building on both conversation and membership categorization analysis, this article explores a series of post-exclusionary translations as backwards-oriented medium repair, video-recorded among Japanese–English bilingual teenagers at an international school.