For example: Hyla
: This girl is fixed up on a da- a blind date.
Kitzinger, 2012:230 The example above shows that Hyla cuts-
off the production of the word „date’ before its completion. She
wants to say „a blind date’, however, she misses the word „blind’ before the word „date’. She initiates repair by cutting off the word „date’ then
provides repair by inserting the word „blind’.
b Self-initiated and other-completed repair
This type of repair is the opposite of the second type of repair i.e. other- initiated self-completed repair. In self-initiated other-completed repair, the speaker of
the trouble source indicates the trouble source and initiates repair while the recipient provides repair solution. Through this repair, the speaker implicitly requests the
recipient to provide repair Hutchby and Wooffit, 2008:60, for instance when the speaker is unable to remember a term or name, as in the example below:
B: He had this uhm- Mister W-m whatever k- I can’t think of his first name.
Watts on, the one that wrote that piece
A: Dan Watts
Hutchby and Wooffit, 2008:61 The example above shows that B experiences difficulty in mentioning a name. B only
can mention the initial of the name, that is W. B initiates repair by saying “I can’t
think of his first name.”. Following the initiation, A provides repair completion by mentioning the full name.
c Other-initiated and self-completed repair
Other-initiated self-completed repair differs from self-initiated self-completed repair in term of who initiates the repair. The initiation of repair is carried by the
recipient while the repair solution is provided by the speaker of the trouble source. Other-initiated self-completed repair is employed right after the trouble source turn.
In initiating repair, the recipient Kitzinger 2012:249 states that other-initiated self- completed repair is effective for the recipient to deal with mishearing,
misunderstanding and mispeaking. For example:
Charles : Are they getting married?
Paul : Who?
Charles : Tim and Dave.
Paul : They have bought a house together now?
Kitzinger, 2012:231 In the conversation a
bove, Charles’ question leads to understanding problem. Paul, who is the recipient, does not understand the referent of
„they’. Therefore, Paul initia
tes repair by saying „who?’ and Charles provides a repair solution by giving elaboration of „they’.
d Other-initiated and other-completed repair
The last type of repair is other-initiated other-completed repair. Both the repair initiation and repair completion are carried by the recipient. The recipient
indicates the trouble source in the speaker’s utterance and she resolves the trouble by
initiating and providing repair. Ian Hutchby and Robin Wooffit in their book entitled
