In this article, I introduce the aims and scope of a project examining other-repetition in natural conversation. This introduction provides the conceptual and methodological background for the five language-specific studies contained in this special issue, focussing on other-repetition in English, Finnish, French, Italian, and Swedish. Other-repetition is a recurrent conversational phenomenon in which a speaker repeats all or part of what another speaker has just said, typically in the next turn. Our project focusses particularly on other-repetitions that problematise what is being repeated and typically solicit a response. Previous research has shown that such repetitions can accomplish a range of conversational actions. But how do speakers of different languages distinguish these actions? In addressing this question, we put at centre stage the resources of prosody—the nonlexical acoustic-auditory features of speech—and bring its systematic analysis into the growing field of pragmatic typology—the comparative study of language use and conversational structure. (Repetition, conversation, prosody, pragmatics, typology)*

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跨语言对话中的其他重复：将韵律带入语用类型学

在本文中，我介绍了一个研究自然对话中的其他重复的项目的目的和范围。本导言为本期特刊中包含的五种语言特定研究提供了概念和方法背景，重点关注英语、芬兰语、法语、意大利语和瑞典语的其他重复。其他重复是一种反复出现的会话现象，其中说话者重复另一个说话者刚刚说过的全部或部分内容，通常是在下一个回合。我们的项目特别关注其他重复，这些重复使重复的内容成为问题，并且通常会征求回应。先前的研究表明，这种重复可以完成一系列对话动作。但是说不同语言的人如何区分这些行为呢？在回答这个问题时，我们将韵律的资源——语音的非词汇声学-听觉特征——置于中心舞台，并将其系统分析带入日益增长的语用类型学领域——语言使用和会话结构的比较研究。（重复、对话、韵律、语用学、类型学）*