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read this to you? Do you mind if I read you
her statement? self
–repair. Trump specifies his words when he was talking
about the paper which contains female reporter
‟s statement. In the beginning he says „this‟ and
he repairs it into „her statement‟. Here, Trumps makes a clearer
intention of his utterances.
6.
A: Youve suggested you might -
T: Excuse me, excuse me I didnt suggest.
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In this case, Anderson as the other
is initiating a repair by saying
„you‟ve suggested‟. In order to answer Anderson
‟s questions as well as to resolve
the repair, Trumps repeats the word „excuse me‟ twice to
strongly denies Anderson‟s statement about a plan to press
charges against the female reporter to prevent the
misunderstanding regarding the matter. He avoids the audience
to wrongly perceive the topic by saying recurrent constituents.
This is called as other-initiated self-repair.
7.
T: I dont think he knew her. I mean, based on
what I heard, I dont think he really even knew who
she was.
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Trump is initiating self-initiated self-repair. He modifies his
previous utterance with adding two adverbs when he was
talking about whether his
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manager, Lewandowski, knows the female journalist or not. He
uses the adverbs in order to change the effect of his
statement. It has a function to emphasize the intention and the
purpose of his utterance.
8.
A: The state attorneys a Democrat
T: Excuse me, excuse me. Oh, really?
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Anderson as the other party is initiating a repair by stating a
statement that makes Trump strongly denies his statement
regarding on who is better to resolve the problem occurs in
Middle East. Here, Trump solves the problem which is
made by the Anderson. He repeats the word
„Excuse me‟ to resolve the trouble source. This
type of repair called as other- initiated self -repair.
9.
T: You know, people, are chopping off heads
in the
Middle East.
Theyre drowning people in
cages by 50s. Theyre drowning - heres a
guy
– she shouldnt have been touching
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Initially, Trump is going to talk further regarding the terrible
fact happened in Middle East. Then he goes back to the main
talk related to the incident with the female journalist. Trump
initiates a repair by abandoning his utterance and resolves it
right away by saying a
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me. Okay? And you saw
that she
did that. She was grabbing
me. Twice. completely new utterance. The
bold parts refer to the parts in which showing the repaired and
the repairing segment. Here, Trump constructs a clearer
intention in his utterance.
10.
T: You just take a look –
you just take a look at whats going on.
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Because of the words blank, Trump initiates a repair as well
as resolves the trouble right away by completing the
utterance
„you just take a look‟ in his utterance. This is one of
the examples of self-initiated self-repair.
11.
T: I would have loved to have fired
