The Referential Repair in the Parent/Child Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective

DONG Boyu

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022110093

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DONG Boyu. The Referential Repair in the Parent/Child Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2023, 39(3): 277-288. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022110093

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DONG Boyu. The Referential Repair in the Parent/Child Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2023, 39(3): 277-288. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022110093

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The Referential Repair in the Parent/Child Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022110093

DONG Boyu

School of Foreign Languages, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China

Received Date: 2022-11-21
Publish Date: 2023-06-25

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Repair is not only an interactional mechanism, but also a common communication phenomenon, which mainly functions as maintaining the progressivity and intersubjectivity in the interaction. Based on the naturally occurring family videos of four children (aged 2.6−5.5), the paper describes the mechanism of child referential repair initiated by the adult from the conversation analysis perspective. The results show that the trouble source of referential repair center on the dislocation of pronoun and the omission of pronoun in the action initial position. Open class repair initiation, category-specific repair initiation, and candidate understandings repair initiation are employed by the adult. Replacing and repetition with gestures are the basic repair solution adopted by the children. Though the preschool children are still in the process of language acquiring, they are competent in locating the trouble source and employing linguistic and embodiment resources to solve the intersubjective problem caused by the referential problem.
- referential repair,
- adult-initiated child-repair,
- Conversation Analysis,
- parent-child interaction.

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