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Publication details [#60096]

Linell, Per. 2015. Mishearings are occasioned by contextual assumptions and situational affordances. Language & Communication 40 : 24–37.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | misunderstanding | perceptual error | repair | situation

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study of 220 mishearings in Swedish conversations, argues that these spontaneous misperceptions of speakers' utterances are largely situation-apt, and to range within a small set of contextual types. They are oft succeeded by interactional sequences comprising repair.