This is a research report on other-initiated other-repair in ordinary conversation conducted in Brazilian Portuguese. With the aim of investigating whether the organization of this repair trajectory in Brazilian Portuguese interaction matches that described for conversationalists interacting in North-American English, 15 hours of interaction were analyzed within the framework of Conversation Analysis. Despite minor differences in some practices, the trajectory is found to be as dispreferred in this corpus as it is in English interaction. Additionally, it was observed that the repaired participant is constrained to acknowledge the repair movement on his/her prior turn.
repair; conversation; correction; disagreement
