Chapter 12 Huh? What? - A first survey in 21 languages

• Main Author: Baranova, Julija (auth)
• Other Authors: Enfield, N.J (auth), S. Gísladóttir, Rósa (auth), Drew, Paul (auth), Hoymann, Gertie (auth), Brown, Penelope (auth), Blythe, Joe (auth), Gipper, Sonja (auth), Magyari, Lilla (auth), Manrique, Elizabeth (auth), Rossi, Giovanni (auth), Floyd, Simeon (auth), Dingemanse, Mark (auth), Torreira, Francisco (auth), H. Kendrick, Kobin (auth), Dirksmeyer, Tyko (auth), C. Levinson, Stephen (auth), San Roque, Lila (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2013
• Subjects: Language; languages; Glider competition classes; Icelandic language; Interjection; Interrogative word; Mandarin Chinese; Phonetics; Sign language; Spoken language
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Introduction A comparison of conversation in twenty-one languages from around the world reveals commonalities and differences in the way that people do open-class other-initiation of repair (Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks, 1977; Drew, 1997). We find that speakers of all of the spoken languages in t...