The Role of Repair in Expression of Dominance and Subordinate Position of Speaker

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Pages: 116-134

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The article examines the role of other initiated repair in building power relations in a specific kind of legal discourse. In the detailed qualitative analysis of 4 pieces of data we have examined samples of other initiated repair had been made by professional participant of People tribunal session – by judge. The analysis is carried out in theoretical and methodological framework of conversation analysis. In the usage of non-preferred and untypical kind of repair the interactants mutually orient to their institutional identities, and in that process the other initiated repair became a device of building asymmetry in discourse.

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