Repair techniques between unknown speakers : a conversational analysis / Mary Grace S. Atian and Aya Medel B. Sazon.

Undergraduate Thesis (ABELS) - English Language Studies. Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges, 2023.

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This study aimed to identify the repair techniques used in conversations between unknown speakers. Twenty (20) students from Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges took part in this investigation. In order to maintain anonymity of the participants, the participants are paired randomly and the interactions do not have visual contact. The participants were free to choose the topic they want to discuss as long as it has consent from both sides. The conversations were audio recorded, transcribed using the Jefferson transcription system by Gail Jefferson (2004) to identify the repair, and qualitatively analyzed using the conversational analysis method. The study's findings show 30 utterances containing various repair techniques the participants used. The techniques are unspecified repair, interrogative repair, partial repeat repair, partial repeat plus question word repair, understanding check repair, request for repetition repair, requests for definition, translation, or explanation repair, and correction repair. The eight repair techniques identified in the study were selected considering the guidelines established by the researchers. The results revealed that unspecified and understanding checks are frequently used in conversations between unknown speakers, whereas requests for repetition and correction are the least frequently used.