Book: Chinese Discourse and Interaction
Chapter: 3. Self-repair in Mandarin and Cantonese: Delaying the next item due in casual conversation and news interviews
Blurb:
In spontaneous talk-in-interaction, participants often need to attend to recurrent problems in speaking, hearing and understanding. Such recurrent problems are studied under the rubric of ‘repair’ (Schegloff et al. 1977).The study reported here focuses on a forward-oriented repair practice taking place around the linking particle (LP) between a modifier and the head noun in a noun phrase with a [modifier + LP + noun] construction.