repair has been finished, B line 10 repeats the repaired-turn. This means that the repair work is joint production among participants in conversation.
4.1.2.5.4 Other-initiated, Other Repair
This kind of repair occurs within recipent’s turn following speaker’s turn with trouble source. The repair can be both initiated and resolved in the same or different
utterences. Below is the analysis of other-initiated, other-repair in Toba Batak conversation reconstructed in the extract of excerpt 46.
1 A : jai na mabbuat pensiun do 1.3 inang .
2 B : taida ma.
3 manang aha do dohonona , sohuboto.
4 A : i do ate . tabo do hamu ate?
5 2.2
6 B : di dia ma tabona.
A line 1 asks B as a confirmation question if she would get her pension from the post-office. B’s turn line 2-3 is not a preferred response since she felt doubt about
the certainty of getting the pension that day. A’s next turn line 4 responses as if B has got her pension, and this is realized in compliment. After a 2.2 seconds silence line 5,
B line 6 initiates and resolves a repair. This repair is resulted from A’s compliment, that is, that B is lucky of getting pension in case of its less fact utterance. So B corrects
it by saying, what is lucky. We can see that the repair comes at the second turn after the source trouble. B initiates and resolves the repair.
The same kind of sequential position as the above repair is shown in the following extract of the same excerpt.
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9. A : ni markalung muse, bagak kalungna. 10. B : a, ubat doi.
A’s compliment line 9 is about the neck-lace B is wearing. B line 10 considered the compliment problematic as it is not in accordance with the fact. The
neck-lace is a kind of attribute in which it contains substance that can cure desease or it is used as a medicine. So the neck-lace is not nice as what A complimented. This is
the trouble source that brought by A to be initiated as problem and then resolved. Other-initiated, other-repair can be found in different utterances. The trouble
source is on the speaker’s side which is initiated and resolved by different recipients. In Toba Batak conversation, participants always manage to launch as many as turns that
lead to repair work, as shown in the following extract of excerpt 42.
7 A : isan dora si Morjo. 8 B : ima na huddul di joloi.
9 C : aido? e disan. ai sakalassu
10 hian do attong on.
A’s utterance line 7; Isan dora si Morjo ‘Morjo may be there’ is the trouble source that B line 8 specifies the place where Morjo is. This is the other-initiated, that is, the
party other than the one that produced the trouble source B highlight the need for repair. At the end of his turn, C line 9-10 repairs by elaborating Morjo’s profile, that
he is C’s classmate. This repair is other-repair in which the problem is resolved by a participant other than the one who has produced it C. A’s turn indicates a problem
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because it is an unclear information which is marked with uncertainty such as demonstrative, isan ‘there’, and modal, dora ‘maybe’. The repair occurs at the third
turn and the initiation at the second turn. But the initiation is not an NTRI, if the third turn repair omitted out, the second turn would become an other-repair, not other-
initiated. Other-initiated, other repair, in Toba Batak conversation is found at the fourth
turn after the trouble source, as shown in the following extract of excerpt 45.
7 B : songino do daba . adong do las si laga-laga.
8 hurasa anggo sappulu kilo sakkabona
9 adong ma tommatna.
10 C : [naiabbirangida.
11 B : i.
12 A : oh nion hape aha ni Janji i.
13 B : i janji i.
B’s turn line 7-9 made a comparison in progress of tomatoes planting showing that there is a tomato plant producing ten kilogram. For C line 10, B’s information is
not complete. C signals the problematic item, that is, the place where the tomatoes are planted; naiabbirangida ‘that is on the left side’. B did not mention the place. At the
fourth turn, A line 12 produced an other-repair utterance by mentioning the name of the place where the tomatoes are planted; tomatoes grown at the place called, Janji.
For the sequential positioning, the other-initiated occurs at the second turn, and the other-repair at the fourth turn. The third and the fifth turn belong to B in which each
of them supportive both to the initiation and repair. The first turn of B is the place for the trouble source.
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From the analysis of repair based on the location, there are more self-repair than other-repair. However, based on the frequency they occur the four types of repair it
still need further discussion.
4.2 Findings 4.2.1 Introductory Remarks
Throughout the research, AP in question-answer and summons-answer can result in greeting-greeting when the SPP in each of them does not give the response as
what the FPP requires as particular second part. Adjacency pairs give slot to the next position whether responded or not. When the first part is not responded, the second
would be noticeably absent that leads to a repair action . The next-turn proof procedures gives clarification to the question in FPP and SPP that they are not
informative questions, in other words, they are Quasi-questions. Another summons- answer occurs as greeting in condition that the SPP be realized in invitation that by the
next-turn procedure it would be a quasi-invitation. To be a pure question-answer pair the required response in SPP should give
information to the informative question in FPP. It is necessary that the SPP be latched. Sequently organized, there are 3 kinds of greeting, 1 greeting which is
composed of horas-horas, 2 greeting composed of horas-other form, and 3 greeting realized in other form-other form. So there are various forms of FPP and SPP. One of
the intersting phenomena is that SPP can be realized in quasi-question.
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