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Conversational repair in spoken Hong Kong Cantonese
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- Source: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Volume 10, Issue 2, Jan 2000, p. 205 - 225
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Abstract
This paper examines the process and mechanism of conversational repair in spoken Hong Kong Cantonese. Levelt calls for accounts of conversational repair from diverse languages; this paper helps test his supposition that “the organization of repair is quite invariant across languages and cultures” (1989: 497). The paper also raises the hypothesis that personal and contextual factors are crucial variables which determinewhich type of repair will be socially acceptable (and therefore prominent) in a particular conversationalsetting.
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