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      Displaying epistemic stance through same-turn self-repair in Chinese civil courtroom interaction

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          Repair, or conversational repair, frequently appears in court proceedings as a vital mechanism sustaining effective communication. Our study presents a conversational analysis of the choices of different operations in the same-turn self-repair and shows how judges, plaintiffs, defendants, and their lawyers deploy those operations based on a model of epistemic stance. The data were drawn from the top five most-viewed videos of Changsha civil courtrooms from March to May, 2019, totaling more than 50,000 words. In the courtroom interaction, replacing and inserting are the most frequently used operations for all participants. In the courtroom cross-examinations, interlocutors use discrepant same-turn self-repair operations to achieve single or multiple communicative goals, such as improving precision, increasing credibility, highlighting their points, skirting questions, and confirming information. Additionally, when the epistemic stance of the trouble source is [K+], speakers employ most same-turn self-repair operations to keep their [K+] epistemic stance by improving precision and increasing credibility of their utterances or use reformatting or inserting to downgrade epistemic stance to [K−] by decreasing the certainty of their utterances. These findings shed light on the understanding of same-turn self-repairs in the institutional interaction, particularly in Chinese civil courtroom interaction.

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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                20 December 2023
                2023
                : 14
                : 1285759
                Affiliations
                English Department, School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University , Changsha, Hunan, China
                Author notes

                Edited by: Antonio Bova, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy

                Reviewed by: Ming-Hung Hsieh, Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Girls' High School, Taiwan; Cynthia Whissell, Laurentian University, Canada

                *Correspondence: Jun Xu, xujun@ 123456hnu.edu.cn
                Article
                10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1285759
                10762541
                38173852
                b6dc44ba-3b15-4a29-9364-4bc71f88798b
                Copyright © 2023 Xu and Ge.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 30 August 2023
                : 27 November 2023
                Page count
                Figures: 6, Tables: 4, Equations: 0, References: 53, Pages: 14, Words: 11039
                Funding
                The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research is supported by the National Social Science Fund of China (Grant Number 17BYY188).
                Categories
                Psychology
                Original Research
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                Psychology of Language

                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                same-turn self-repair,repair operations,epistemic stance,conversation analysis,courtroom interaction

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