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Publication details [#66302]

Lerner, Gene H. and Celia Kitzinger. 2019. Well-Prefacing in the Organization of Self-Initiated Repair. Research on Language & Social Interaction 52 (1) : 1–19.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

formulating | repair | speaker

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Based on the assay of a collection of 135 recorded instances of the phenomenon, this paper argues that well-prefacing is a practice speakers use to overtly cast a repair solution as a noteworthy revision of the inadequate (but not wholly wrong) formulation it is moving away from. Data are in British and American English.