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Publication details [#64380]

Oloff, Florence. 2018. “Sorry?”/“Como?”/“Was?” – Open class and embodied repair initiators in international workplace interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 126 : 29–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language choice | meeting | multilingualism | repair | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Open class repair initiators (OCRIs) do not itemize the trouble to be repaired. In international and multilingual settings, this constitutes a specific challenge. In these settings OCRIs are mostly handled as problem in hearing. OCRIs in face-to-face encounters are attended by embodied repair displays. Particular embodied repair displays relate to problems in hearing or comprehending.