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Some trouble with repair: conversations between children with cochlear implants and hearing peers
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posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by A Church, Louise PaatschLouise Paatsch, Dianne ToeDianne ToeThis article investigates differences in pragmatic abilities between children who have cochlear implants and their hearing peers. Recordings of 10-minute conversations between 10 children with cochlear implants (children with age-equivalent language scores) and a hearing peer were transcribed. Conversation analysis provides insights into interactional troubles not evident in broader measures of number of turns, requests for clarification, topic initiation and so on used in earlier studies. How the children go about repair proves of particular interest; other-initiated repair that prompts the speaker to repeat the prior utterance is, not surprisingly, more commonly produced by the children who have cochlear implants. The key contribution of this article, however, is to detail examples where children with cochlear implants choose not to initiate repair of an error made by their hearing friend. The discussion not only highlights the interactional cost of initiating repair, but also demonstrates that not doing repair can cause a breakdown in conversation.
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Discourse studiesVolume
19Issue
1Pagination
49 - 68Publisher
Sage PublicationsLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1461-4456eISSN
1461-7080Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2017, The AuthorsUsage metrics
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