会话修正(conversationalrepair)研究属于会话分析中的一个研究领域,最早由社会学家谢格洛夫(Schegloff,E.A.)等人于1977年提出。由于其重在对语言的考察,该理论提出后马上受到诸多语言学家,如话语分析学家、心理语言学家、社会语言学家、计算语言学家、二语习得研究者等的关注。本文拟概述会话修正研究在国外的发展历程,以引起更多国内研究者的兴趣,加速其在国内的研究步伐。 Conversationalrepair is a research field in conversational analysis, first proposed by sociologist Schegloff, E.A. et al in 1977. Due to its emphasis on the study of language, the theory was immediately followed by the attention of many linguists such as discourse analysts, psycholinguists, social linguists, computational linguists, second language acquisition researchers and others . This article intends to outline the development of conversational amending research in foreign countries to arouse more interest of domestic researchers and accelerate their research in China.