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Repairing self- and recipient-reference

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posted on 2014-07-21, 11:30 authored by Alexa Hepburn, Sue Wilkinson, Rebecca Shaw
There are dedicated reference terms—in English—for self- and recipient reference (I and its grammatical variants for self; you and its grammatical variants for recipient). These terms are invariant across occasions of reference and, as such, are repaired much less commonly than are references to third persons. In this article, we focus on four types of “trouble” addressed by repair to selfand recipient reference: (a) indexing the wrong referent, (b) possible referential ambiguity in direct reported speech, (c) masked scope and/or constituent membership of referent, and (d) masked relevance of referent. We also show that repairs to self- or recipient reference are routinely not limited to fixing problems of understanding but are also used in the service of the interactional task at hand.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION

Volume

45

Issue

2

Pages

175 - 190 (16)

Citation

HEPBURN, A., WILKINSON, S. and SHAW, R., 2012. Repairing self- and recipient-reference. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45 (2), pp. 175-190.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis Group

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2012

ISSN

0835-1813

eISSN

1532-7973

Language

  • en