City Research Online

Abstract

Repair–the process of detecting and responding to problems with speaking, hearing or understanding in conversation–is the focus of a range of established coding protocols. We discuss the practical process of developing and applying these protocols to a range of verbal and non-verbal repair phenomena. Coding protocols necessarily trade detail for generalization. We consider four payoffs: (i) practical–reduced effort and increased speed and scale of data analysis; ii) empirical–quantitative insights into the distribution of repairs that support comparative analysis and applications such as detecting Alzheimer’s Disease; iii) computational –enabling automatic detection of verbal and non-verbal repairs for corpus analysis, dialogue systems development, and to support selective experiments on repair processes; (iv) interdisciplinary–the process of protocol development provides a methodological bridge between qualitative and quantitative disciplines that can foster new insights into how repairs work. Data are in English and German.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Subjects:	P Language and Literature
Departments:	School of Health & Medical Sciences School of Health & Medical Sciences > Department of Population Health & Policy
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

Export

Downloads