Or -Prefacing in the Organization of Self-Initiated Repair.

This report identifies a distinct, and distinctly positioned, element of the repair segment—the repair preface—and focuses onor-prefacing to introduce the practice of repair prefacing and to develop an analysis of one preface type. Althoughor-prefaced repairs do substitute one formulation for another, theor-preface shows that the trouble source formulation is not being discarded altogether, thereby mitigating the reparative character of the repair operation. We also examine expandedor-prefaced repair segments for what they reveal about the partor-prefacing plays in repair. Additionally, and as part of our explication of repair prefacing, we show how some same-TCU repairs (with and withoutor-prefaces) can be mounted without progressivity-disrupting hitches or alerts. Data are in American and British English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]