Repeating the Interviewer: Repetition Strategies by Chinese EFL Learners in NS-NNS Interview (Repeating the Interviewer: Repetition Strategies by Chinese EFL Learners in NS-NNS Interview )

Kyung-Hee Suh (서경희)

Repeating the Interviewer: Repetition Strategies by Chinese EFL Learners in NS-NNS Interview

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
Abbr : 사회언어학
2012, 20(2), pp.269-289
Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics

Kyung-Hee Suh ¹

¹한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the sequential contexts where repetition is observed in NS-NNS interview interactions involving Chinese learners of English. Special reference is made to how repetition practiced by NS and NNS is differently distributed in ways consistent with their identities situated in the institutional setting of interview. The examination of data reveals that Chinese EFL learners frequently use repetition as a discourse strategy. They repeat the topically salient phrases or key words from the prior utterances of native speakers at the utterance initial position in adjacency pairs. Such an allo-repetition (repetition of others) is to index topicality, which helps signal cognitive, textual, and affective participation or involvement in contextualized discourse. Such a repetition also functions to buy time for the speaker to finish planning his/her next move without relinquishing the floor. Here, repetition is deployed as a means of creating joint cognition and as a strategy with which partially competent speakers can find room in interaction, while a competent speaker can provide scaffolded help collaboratively. We can see that repetition is a social activity, part of our everyday behavior and not just a marker of a "disfluency" or "sloppy speaker" (Schegloff 1987). Repetition clearly has the power as a communication and negotiation tool

KEYWORDS

nonnative speaker discourse, allo-repetition, discourse strategy, topicality, institutional talk.

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