TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Oloff, Florence
T1  - “Sorry?”/“Como?”/“Was?” – Open class and embodied repair initiators in international workplace interactions
JF  - Journal of Pragmatics
N2  - As open class repair initiators (OCRIs, e.g., “what” or “huh”) do not specify the type of repairable, choosing an adequate repair format in the next turn becomes a practical problem for the participants. Whereas in monolingual/L1 speaker conversations participants typically orient towards troubles caused by reduced acoustic intelligibility or by topical/sequential disjunction, in multilingual/L2 interactions possible problems regarding asymmetric language choices and skills can be added – and might be responded to accordingly. Based on videotaped international business meetings and interactions at a customs post, this paper investigates various open class and embodied other-initiations of repair. By means of a conversation analytical and multimodal approach to social interaction, this contribution focuses first on instances of audible OCRIs and illustrates that they are accompanied by embodied conduct. Second, two types of embodied other-initiation of repair are scrutinized: a lifted eyebrows/head display and a freeze display in which movements are suspended. The analysis shows that participants treat these as referring either to troubles in hearing (display 1) or to troubles in understanding the linguistic format (display 2). This leads to the formulation of further desiderata and analytical challenges regarding the multimodal other-initiation of repair in general and in professional international settings in particular.
KW  - international work settings
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - video data
KW  - repair sequences
KW  - open class repair initiators
KW  - Gespräch
KW  - Interaktion
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - Hören
KW  - Verstehen
KW  - embodied other-initiation of repair
KW  - Videoaufzeichnung
Y1  - 2018
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-109145
SN  - 0378-2166
SS  - 0378-2166
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.11.002
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.11.002
VL  - 126
SP  - 29
EP  - 51
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -