This study investigates how modal meanings such as volition, obligation, possibility or
permission in Chinese are constructed through conversational repair organization. Over 40 …

This study explores the intersubjective and dynamic construction of modal meanings in
Chinese discourse. Specifically, it examines the role conversational repair plays in …

In this article, I examine how repairs in adult-child conversations guide children's acquisition
of language. Children make unprompted self-repairs to their utterances. They also respond …

ABSTRACT Modals (eg, can, must) vary along two dimensions of meaning:“force”(ie,
possibility or necessity), and “flavor”(ie, possibilities relative to knowledge [epistemic], goals …

This study reports findings from an initial exploration of the interplay of multimodality and
repair in Beijing Mandarin. The multimodal resources used in repair that are explored in this …

This paper is concerned with the acquisition of certain aspects of the meaning of epistemic
modal verbs. Epistemic modals encode the probability, predictability or certainty of the …

Children's language acquisition develops at the crossroads of the appropriation of the
linguistic system and its use in dialogue. Analyzing how children and adults cooperate to …

The practices through which participants in social interaction deal with problems of hearing
and understanding what others have said or done have a long and well-documented …

This article is concerned with the ways in which the students and the teacher in a content‐
based German as a foreign language class used repair in order to negotiate meaning and …

Everyday interaction is not a faultless process. It is possible for the process to experience
troubles in speaking, hearing or understanding that can lead to interactional breakdowns …