This article focuses on the basic pragmatic functions of a specific type of repetition, namely
local diaphonic repetitions, which will be viewed as markers of dialogue structure. We …

Repetition poses certain problems for pragmatics, as evidenced by Sperber and Wilson's
claim that “the effects of repetition on utterance interpretation are by no means constant” …

Russian language uses syntactic reduplication (repetition of a word or modified word within
the same prosodic unit) widely. This study examines one particular usage: reduplication as …

In this article, I introduce the aims and scope of a project examining other-repetition in
natural conversation. This introduction provides the conceptual and methodological …

Repetition is endemic in everyday conversation. Speakers not only repeat their own words
and phrases at the level of the turn, and their own turns at the discourse level, but they also …

Repetition has been described as one of the most misunderstood phenomena in
psycholinguistics (Ochs & Schieffelin, 1983). Indeed, repetition is a human, social activity …

The notion of redundancy has been referred to in several different research domains, from
the classic mathematical theory of communication to biology, to linguistics, etc. In a …

In human–human communication, dialogue participants are continuously sending and
receiving signals on the status of the information being exchanged. These signals may …

This paper contributes to the growing body of knowledge on current listeners' responses in
talk-in-interaction. In particular, it complements earlier findings on double sayings of German …

The paper aims to examine the role that prosody plays in constructing the context in which
utterances become interpretable. The realisations of some prosodic features at particular …