Repair as a practice and action in East Asian languages
Introduction
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.29226Keywords:
editorial, repair/correction, Chinese, Japanese, KoreanAbstract
The papers collected in this special issue explore ways in which repair/correction is organised in three East Asian languages, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, from the perspective of conversation analysis (CA).
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