Oral interaction is sometimes not articulated by its participants as perfect as they project. The
unsuccessful instances of talk in exchange may cause serious communicative breakdowns …

By applying membership categorization analysis (MCA) to fictional discourse, this study
investigates how various production techniques and actors' work are employed to make …

Not all other-initiations of repair (OIR) are instantly followed by a functional self-repair that
restores the progress of the conversation. Despite previous observations of OIRs generally …

Dominant accounts of “speaker meaning” in post-Gricean contextualist pragmatics tend to
focus on single utterances, making the theoretical assumption that the object of pragmatic …

58 реагируют на непонимание со стороны робота после его возникновения, но и
активно предугадывают его, выстраивая свои реплики так, чтобы они были понятны …

Researchers in various fields have observed that in everyday interaction, play activities or
frames are linguistically and multimodally bound off from others (eg, Bateson, 1972; …

The potential for misunderstanding is ever-present in interaction, making it necessary that
interactants have means for identifying and remediating troubles in understanding should …

We examine how participants in a moral conflict hold fast to their beliefs during a highly-
publicized moment in an ongoing social controversy. We apply discourse analysis to a video …

This article examines the use of excuse me as a practice for invoking the complainability of
another person's conduct in the service of sanctioning it as mis conduct. It explores how a …

This article makes the case for the situated orderliness of social discomfort as a cultural
resource for social actors in mundane public interaction. It does this by describing instances …