ABSTRACT
Described in several interactional settings, most notably the classroom (Garcez, 2006GARCEZ, P. M. 2006. A organização da fala-em-interação na sala de aula: controle social, reprodução de conhecimento, construção conjunta de conhecimento. Calidoscópio, 4(1), 66-80.; McHoul, 1990MCHOUL, A. W. 1990. The organization of repair in classroom talk. Language in Society , 19(3), 349-377.), the action of correcting someone has received attention from conversation analysts particularly within the study of the systematics of repair (Schegloff et al., 1977SCHEGLOFF, E. A.; JEFFERSON, G. & SACKS, H. 1977. The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation. Language , 53(2): 361-383.), where it was treated by many authors as a repair subtype. Doubts about and challenges to the pertinence of understanding other-correction in the domain of repair (Cheng, 2014CHENG, T.-P. 2014. The interactional achievements of repair and correction in a Mandarin language classroom. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 3(2), 175-200.; Hall, 2007HALL, J. K. 2007. Redressing the roles of correction and repair in research on second and foreign language learning. The Modern Language Journal, 91(4), 510-525.; Macbeth, 2004MACBETH, D. 2004. The relevance of repair for classroom correction. Language in Society , 33(5), 703-736.) have motivated us to resume previous work (Garcez & Loder, 2005GARCEZ, P. M. & LODER, L. L. 2005. Reparo iniciado e levado a cabo pelo outro na conversa cotidiana em português do Brasil. DELTA , 21(5), 279-312.) and revisit the phenomena here. In this retrospective, after a survey of relevant research, we analyze two excerpts of interaction in Brazilian Portuguese (one from classroom talk-in-interaction, one from ordinary conversation) to underscore the distinctive interactive work performed by participants when doing repair (within the foundational systematics designed to address and solve problems of intersubjectivity) and other-correction (a dispreferred first action to expose unequal epistemic stances). We thus adopt the position that, even though they may operate successively in one same sequence, these are actions in different organizational domains.
Keywords:
conversation; correction; intersubjectivity; repair; talk-in-interaction
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