(12)
Tamar:
[The MLJ format.
(13) TS Prof:
The MLJ Format.
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(14)
Tamar:
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It’s horrible I think.
(15) RI Kelly:
→
This one is [MLJ format?
⫽
(16)
Prof:
[Yes.
(17)
Tamar:
⫽
Yeah.
(18)
Prof:
This this one is this [this yeah
(19)
Ellen:
[(
)
(20)
Kelly:
Right. right. well I mean it’s so funny because there’s not
(21)
even enough- really enough number- or I guess there is but
(22)
(.) before I even started the article I took a look at the
(23)
bibliography and I said NO::: this person really knows (
(24)
)((laugh))looking forward to like reading all the names
(25)
and everything ((laugh)) yeah I mean I figured that was what
(26)
the numbers were. I did go look at it at some point but-
(27)
Prof:
Yeah I mean that that part is required by the journal.
(28)
Kelly:
yYYeah.
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I argue that Kelly’s repair initiation “This one is MLJ format?” in line 15 is doing
something other than dealing with problems in understanding. It is produced to con-
vey disaffiliation—her refusal to back down from an earlier assertion. First, it occurs
not in the next turn but the turn after the next, following Tamar’s latching comment in
line 14: “It’s horrible I think.” The delay is noticeable because both the professor’s
and Tamar’s turns in lines 10–13 are clearly addressed to Kelly. Kelly, as the next
speaker, could have either admitted to not knowing the specifics of MLJ format or in-
dicated that she had never heard of the term MLJ. Note, however, that both options
imply some sort of “fault” or inadequacy on Kelly’s part. In light of what Kelly could
have said, then, her reticence in line 14 works to withhold some sort of “giving in.”
Second, by emphasizing “This” in saying “This one is MLJ format?” Kelly empha-
sizes her disbelief—thereby veiled criticism—that a writing style such as this could
be what people refer to as the MLJ format, while perhaps concealing that she does
not know MLJ. Third, in lines 16–18, both the professor and Tamar, treating “This
one is MLJ format?” as requesting confirmation, confirm that what Kelly refers to as
the author’s own approach is indeed the MLJ format. To forestall further confirma-
tion, Kelly says in line 20, “Right. right,” disallowing the professor’s proceeding on
the analysis of Kelly’s repair initiation as “requesting confirmation.” Finally, the sta-
tus of this repair initiation as veiled critique is made more evident in Kelly’s subse-
quent talk, where she gives a further account of what she considers to be the format’s
confusing numbering system (lines 20–26).
This segment represents another case in which repair initiation acts as a disguise
under which something else—a veiled critique, coupled with a refusal to back down
in the service of saving one’s intellectual “face” (Tracy 1997)—is accomplished.
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