Publications

Publication details [#56538]

Bolden, Galina B. 2012. Across languages and cultures: Brokering problems of understanding in conversational repair. Language in Society 41 (1) : 97–121.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | language and culture | language proficiency | misunderstanding | repair

Language as a subject

English, American | Russian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article examines the interactional construction of second language comprehension and proficiency through conversational repair in bilingual Russian-American immigrant families.