I consider a particularly puzzling conversational phenomenon: the repetition acknowledgment preface, or RAP, which consists of a brief reference to an earlier telling of a story, or topic of conversation, prior to its repetition (e.g., I was just telling John…). Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman, in particular, and a collection of carefully documented empirical episodes, I identify eleven functions RAPs may serve (intentionally or unintentionally), the circumstantial preconditions for each, and the extent to which RAPs are well-suited for it, conjecturing that well-suitedness is a clue to RAPs' original purpose.

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重复致谢前言

我认为特别令人费解的对话现象：重复确认序言，或RAP，它由一个简单提及某个故事的早期讲述，或谈话的话题，之前它的重复（比如，我只是告诉约翰â€| ）。特别是利用 Erving Goffman 的工作，以及一系列仔细记录的经验片段，我确定了 RAP 可能（有意或无意）发挥的十一种功能、每个功能的环境先决条件，以及 RAP 非常适合的程度它，推测非常适合是 RAP 最初目的的线索。