Positions and strategies of self-repair in English and Vietnamese conversations

Tóm tắt

Self-repair is very necessary for the speakers to keep their conversations go on and gain efficiency in communication. There have been a lot of surveys on this matter, but the researchers have inclined to do the researches on other-repair or both. Schegloff et al. [5] mentioned self-repair with such features as positions and strategies of correcting the mistakes causing communication breakdowns from the speakers. This is one of the most valuable researches contributing to helping the speakers in the conversations feel more confident and help them to know how to control their conversations so that they can gain their communicative purposes. This paper presents and analyzes the positions and strategies of self - repair in English and Vietnamese conversations, based on the theory of Schegloff et al.[5] with the aim of discovering the similarities and differences in the positions and in using the strategies to repair the mistakes in the two languages. The results will provide learners with some useful ways to make effective conversations.