Repetitions in Turkish: Talk among Friends

Abstract

Repetitions are resources for maintaining intersubjectivity and collaborative meaning-making in talk. The aim of this study was to investigate repetitions in more detail in terms of types of repetitions (self–other) to determine the functions of repetitions in conversations involving friends speaking in Turkish. After a comparison with another collection of conversations among family members, it was proposed that the use and functions of repetitions in conversations were influenced and modified by the quality and type of relationship among the participants. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1202227

Keywords

• repetitions
• daily conversations
• conversation analysis
• type of relationship