Self-correction in the spontaneous speech of Komi speakers
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Philology
About author:
Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: an integral feature of oral discourse is the discontinuity of the act of speech, which informs about the difficulties in finding and verbalization of a speaker’s speech intention and consists in the presence of hesitations, repetitions, self-corrections, as well as in the use of non-verbal means of communication. Traditional Finno-Ugric studies are focused primarily on written language. Oral speech rarely is an independent object of study. The study of the peculiarities of oral speech is relevant for determination of the current state of the language, establishment of the main trends in its development, as well as phenomena characteristic only of this form of language.
Objective: to reveal the main types of self-correction in spontaneous speech of Komi speakers and possible causes of their occurrence.
Research materials: samples of public speech of television programs that sufficiently fully reflect the features of spontaneous monologue and dialog speech of Komi speakers.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time the article analyzes various types of self-corrections in the spontaneous speech of Komi speakers. It is established that in the process of speech generation, a speaker may encounter
phonetic, grammatical and lexical problems. It is revealed that self-corrections occur within the predication. Contact corrections are frequent. A speaker tries to immediately correct an erroneous or inappropriate fragment of speech from his point of view, then after a hesitative marker to bring a full-meaning word and to find a Komi equivalent for a Russian insertion. Self-corrections in speech can be caused by clarification and explanation of a fragment of speech, incorrect or inaccurate use of a word form, and interlanguage interference.
Key words: oral speech, spontaneous monologue, speech shifts, hesitation, self-corrections of a speaker, preparative substitution, code switching, Komi language
Acknowledgements: the publication is prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Komi National Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project FUUU-2021-0008 “Permian Languages in the Linguocultural Space of the European North and the Urals”.
For citation: Nekrasova G. A. Self-correction in the spontaneous speech of Komi speakers // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (3/54): 452–460.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: an integral feature of oral discourse is the discontinuity of the act of speech, which informs about the difficulties in finding and verbalization of a speaker’s speech intention and consists in the presence of hesitations, repetitions, self-corrections, as well as in the use of non-verbal means of communication. Traditional Finno-Ugric studies are focused primarily on written language. Oral speech rarely is an independent object of study. The study of the peculiarities of oral speech is relevant for determination of the current state of the language, establishment of the main trends in its development, as well as phenomena characteristic only of this form of language.
Objective: to reveal the main types of self-correction in spontaneous speech of Komi speakers and possible causes of their occurrence.
Research materials: samples of public speech of television programs that sufficiently fully reflect the features of spontaneous monologue and dialog speech of Komi speakers.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time the article analyzes various types of self-corrections in the spontaneous speech of Komi speakers. It is established that in the process of speech generation, a speaker may encounter
phonetic, grammatical and lexical problems. It is revealed that self-corrections occur within the predication. Contact corrections are frequent. A speaker tries to immediately correct an erroneous or inappropriate fragment of speech from his point of view, then after a hesitative marker to bring a full-meaning word and to find a Komi equivalent for a Russian insertion. Self-corrections in speech can be caused by clarification and explanation of a fragment of speech, incorrect or inaccurate use of a word form, and interlanguage interference.
Key words: oral speech, spontaneous monologue, speech shifts, hesitation, self-corrections of a speaker, preparative substitution, code switching, Komi language
Acknowledgements: the publication is prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Komi National Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project FUUU-2021-0008 “Permian Languages in the Linguocultural Space of the European North and the Urals”.
For citation: Nekrasova G. A. Self-correction in the spontaneous speech of Komi speakers // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (3/54): 452–460.
