When people are engaged in social interaction, they can repeat aspects of each other's
communicative behavior, such as words or gestures. This kind of behavioral alignment has …

Human society is organised through communicative interactions between co-present
people. Speech pathology (SP) assessment and intervention strategies aim to access these …

There would be little adaptive value in a complex communication system like human
language if there were no ways to detect and correct problems. A systematic comparison of …

Conversation analysis (hereafter CA) is an approach to language and social interaction that
emerged in the mid-to late 1960s through the collaboration of the sociologists Harvey Sacks …

Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first
session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This …

Traditional grammar and current theoretical approaches towards modelling grammatical
knowledge ignore language in interaction: that is, words such as huh, eh, yup or yessssss …

A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard
what someone just said–is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken …

This special issue reports on a cross-linguistic study of other-initiated repair, a domain at the
crossroads of language, mind, and social life. Other-initiated repair is part of a system of …

Repair describes the process through which participants in conversation address problems
in speaking, understanding, and hearing. In interactions with AI-driven chatbots, user repair …

This conversation analytical paper examines other-initiated repair sequences in everyday
interactions between first and second language speakers of Finnish. More specifically, it …