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516 Part 6: Language and Interaction
06 thought about this.uh done about this.
07 A: ohh I think for a number of reasons
08 they didn’t speak up I- uh-uh one it’s
09 not sure whe:ther: you know journalists
10 are comfortable sorta turning in each
11 other.
12 (.)
13 I don’t know to what degree that’s sort
14 of a:: you know written pact maybe they
15 don’t do it
Although she has opportunity to do so at line 12, the interviewer does
not correct or in any other way orient to this grammatical stumble. In their
paper on the organization of repair, Schegloff et al. accounted for the paucity
of such corrections by noting:
When the hearing/understanding of a turn is adequate to the production
of a correction by ‘other’, it is adequate to allow production of a
sequentially appropriate next turn. Under that circumstance, the
turn’s recipient (‘other’) should produce the next turn, not the correction
(and, overwhelmingly, that is what is done). Therein lies another
basis for the empirical paucity of other-corrections: those who could
do them do a sequentially appropriate next turn instead. (Schegloff
et al., 1977: 380)
In the contexts Schegloff et al. (1977) analyze then, the production of
sequentially appropriate next turns (one manifestation of the principle of
progressivity; see Schegloff, 2007: 14–15) is typically prioritized relative
to correcting otherwise adequate prior turns-at-talk.
However, in the context of language learning, ‘correctness’ takes on a
pedagogical importance and these priorities may be reversed. That is, a
standard of ‘correct’ replaces a standard of ‘good-enough’, which is typical
of ordinary conversation. Kurhila (2005) shows that the repair of grammatical
forms is overwhelmingly initiated by the non-native speakers in NS–
NNS interaction. An example from her research is included as (25) below:
(25) Kurhila
In data from NS–NNS of Finnish, NNS has been telling a story about
two babies who were mixed up in a birth clinic
001 NNS: .hhhh Sitte he (0.2) huomaa huomu- huom-huoma =
then they notice + PRS + 3
.hhhh Then they notice notid- noti- notic =
002 NS: =Jo [o houmas ]
ye [s notice + PST +3
=Ye [s noticed]