Over-Exposed Self-Correction: Practices for Managing Competence and Morality. Issue 3 (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bolden, Galina B.; Hepburn, Alexa; Potter, Jonathan; Zhan, Kaicheng; Wei, Wan; Park, Song Hee; Shirokov, Aleksandr; Chun, Hee Chung; Kurlenkova, Aleksandra; Licciardello, Dana; Caldwell, Marissa; Mandelbaum, Jenny; Mikesell, Lisa
• Is Part Of: Research on language and social interaction. Volume 55:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 203
• Page End: 221
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: Linguistics -- Periodicals; Sociolinguistics -- Periodicals; Communication -- Periodicals; 401.4105
• DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2067426
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0835-1813

Abstract

ABSTRACT: When repairing a problem in their talk, speakers sometimes do more than simply correct an error, extending the self-correction segment to comment on, repeat, apologize, and/or reject the error. We call this "over-exposed self-correction." In over-exposing the error, speakers may manage (and reflexively construct) a range of attributional troubles that it has raised. We discuss how over-exposed self-correction can be used to: (a) remediate errors that might suggest the speaker's incompetence; and (b) redress errors that may be heard as revealing relational "evils" (implicating inadequate other-attentiveness) or societal "evils" (conveying problematic social attitudes and prejudices). The article thus shows how conversation analytic work on repair can provide a platform for studying the emergence and management of socially and relationally charged issues in interaction. The data come from a diverse corpus of talk-in-interaction in American, British, and Australian English.