The Role of Repair in Expression of Dominance and Subordinate Position of Speaker Cover Image

Роль исправлений в выражении доминантной и подчиненной позиции говорящего
The Role of Repair in Expression of Dominance and Subordinate Position of Speaker

Author(s): Nava-Vanda Sahverdova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Philology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the role of other initiated repair in building power relations in a specific kind of legal discourse. In the detailed qualitative analysis of 4 pieces of data we have examined samples of other initiated repair had been made by professional participant of People tribunal session – by judge. The analysis is carried out in theoretical and methodological framework of conversation analysis. In the usage of non-preferred and untypical kind of repair the interactants mutually orient to their institutional identities, and in that process the other initiated repair became a device of building asymmetry in discourse.

  • Issue Year: 9/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 116-134
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Russian