Abstract This study examines linguistic feature selection and its relationship with repair sequences in a longitudinal corpus of Japanese–Filipino business ELF interactions. In the corpus, Japanese employees communicate once a month with Filipino employees via computer software to confirm infrastructure status at a Filipino company’s factories. Comparative constructions frequently appear in the corpus because of the nature of the interactions, but the kinds and frequencies of comparative constructions change month to month. This study demonstrates that early in the corpus, the speakers utilized a multitude of comparative constructions, but after 12 months, the speakers have settled on one preferred comparative construction. Furthermore, the preferred construction emerged from repair sequences, which suggests that repair is significantly related to linguistic feature selection. Accordingly, this study hypothesizes that repair sequences do far more than just resolve an interactional problem; repaired linguistic features are more likely to be selected again the next time a similar linguistic feature is relevant to the progression of the interaction.

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语言特征选择的系统性：修复序列和后续适应

摘要 本研究在日本-菲律宾商业 ELF 交互的纵向语料库中检查语言特征选择及其与修复序列的关系。在语料库中，日本员工每月通过计算机软件与菲律宾员工沟通一次，以确认菲律宾公司工厂的基础设施状态。由于相互作用的性质，比较结构经常出现在语料库中，但比较结构的种类和频率逐月变化。这项研究表明，在语料库的早期，发言者使用了多种比较结构，但在 12 个月后，发言者已经确定了一种首选的比较结构。此外，首选结构来自修复序列，这表明修复与语言特征选择显着相关。因此，本研究假设修复序列不仅仅解决相互作用问题；下次类似的语言特征与交互的进展相关时，更有可能再次选择修复的语言特征。