Organizational Unit: PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF CLAUSAL REPETITIONS IN TURKISH DAILY SPOKEN DISCOURSE
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Date established
2023-04-15
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DUBAİ (ONLINE)
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Description
Face-to-face communication occurs in real time and thus speakers continuously need to plan
and produce their utterances online. Verbal repetition is a linguistic tool commonly used by
speakers in natural everyday discourse. and it attracts a great deal of interest in various types of
spoken discourse including daily spoken discourse, service encounters, child language,
classroom discourse etc. in an attempt to determine their cognitive, communicative,
psycholinguistic and interactive functions. Pragmatic repetition refers to purposeful iteration
of one’s own speech or the speech of a co-participant during spontaneous discourse. It is
considered as a natural component of communication which fulfills various functions in spoken
discourse. Van Lancker Sidtis and Wolf (2015) classify repetitions into three primary functions
which further divide into several sub-functions. Primary functions of pragmatic repetitions have
been described as i) maintaining the form of the conversation, ii) enhancing the content, and iii)
socialization. As for the linguistic form of repetitions, five formal categories have been
identified: i) localness (immediate, delayed or distant repetition); ii) preservation (exact or nonexact
repetition), iii) source (self-repetition or other-repetition), iv) grammatical unit (word,
phrase, clause etc.) and v) phrase type (novel or formulaic). This study aims to determine the
functions of sentence repetitions in 4-hour Turkish daily spoken discourse using the given
taxonomy within the framework of Conversation Analysis. Results showed that sentence
repetitions were mainly used for socialization in other-repetitions and for maintaining the form
of the conversation in self-repetitions.