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Elder, Chi-Hé 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3702-5397 and Beaver, David
(2022)
“We’re running out of fuel”: When does miscommunication go unrepaired?
Intercultural Pragmatics, 19 (5).
pp. 541-570.
ISSN 1612-295X
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Abstract
We introduce a framework for studying repair initiation in the face of miscommunication. Our aim is to seed development of models that both predict when conversational repair is a likely communicative strategy, and explain why interlocutors would not engage in repair in the face of conversational difficulty. We identify three factors as critical to the predictability of repair: (i) the extent to which a misalignment is (un)recognised by participants (ignorance); (ii) the significance of misalignment relative to some cluster of goals (cost of misalignment); and (iii) the significance of engaging in repair relative to some cluster of goals (cost of repair). We offer a simple method for graphically depicting relevant aspects of communicative situations, and exemplify the framework with examples of non-repaired miscommunication before discussing its applicability to different empirical domains.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cognitive misalignment,communicative strategies,conversational repair,miscommunication,language and linguistics,communication,linguistics and language ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1203 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2022 12:30 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 16:35 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/86865 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/ip-2022-5001 |
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