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audience, tremendous audience, and theyre all
shaking their heads, give me a break, give me a
break. word „big‟ with „tremendous‟ to
emphasize the number of people who attend the set where a
suspicious female reporter grabbed him. The word
„big‟ in the first utterance seems to have
a bit unclear intention. Then he modifies it in order to make the
audience understand regarding the truly situation.
3.
T: We had a whole big
meeting with a whole group of people, big
audience, tremendous audience, and theyre all
shaking their heads, give me a break, give me a
break.
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Trumps creates a self-initiated self-repair. He repeats his own
words in order to show the act that happened when he was in
the middle of the crowd. He imitates the people in the crowd
by repeating the utterance „give me a break‟
4.
T: But to the best of my knowledge, its Texas. So
he made that - I was surprised you didnt
correct him actually.
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In the bold parts, Trump is going to talk further about the
truth of Ted Cruz‟ hometown. However, he chooses to
abandon the statement and repair it with throwing another
statement directly to Anderson. In this case, Trump is doing a
self-initiated self-repair in which he initiates and also
resolves the repair.
5.
T: Do you mind if I
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Trump is doing a self-initiated
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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
