Applied Linguistics at the Interface - British Association for Applied Linguistics
Subverting conversational repair in a hostile email discussion
Applied Linguistics at the Interface - British Association for Applied Linguistics
Sandra Harrison
Coventry University
Description
This chapter explores the use of repair-like structures in one hostile incident from a small corpus of naturally occurring email discussion data. Investigation of repair in non-hostile email discussion data revealed that a variety of patterns of repair familiar from spoken conversation were being used successfully, serving a range of purposes such as clarification of meaning, correction of factually incorrect statements, and repairs of technology-related turn-taking problems.