On the "ways" to bypass a hesitation stammer: ON-LINE and OFF-LINE correction in russian speech of chinese native speakers
The paper considers one of the hesitation phenomena in the Russian oral speech of Chinese nationals - self-correction as a speaker’s specific way to bypass a hesitation stammer which is so common in the spontaneous speech, including in a foreign language. The attention is focused on two main strategies used by a speaker to correct an error or overcome speech hesitation. Figuratively, following V.I. Podlesskaya and A.A. Kibrik, they may be referred to as on-line and off-line correction. These reactions are much frequent in the verbal flow of different speakers and perform a number of other functions at the same time (search, meta-communication, reflection on the above, etc.). The material for the research was collected according to the methodology developed for creation of Balanced Annotated Collection of Texts as one of the modules of the Speech Corpus of Russian Everyday Communication. The team of informants was balanced in sociological terms (gender and level of proficiency in Russian - II TRFI (Test in Russian as a foreign language) and III TRFI; all of the research participants underwent psychological testing (H. Eysenck’s test for Chinese language speakers) for identification of their psychotype (extrovert, ambivert, introvert). All monologues were recorded in four communication scenarios: reading and retelling of a text (with a plot and without it), description of an image (also with a plot and without it) and a free-form story with the subject “How do you spend your spare time on vacation?” Thus, the material for the analysis was 70 spontaneous texts - 7 texts from each of 10 tested informants.