The Speech Repair Strategies: An Analysis of Same Turn Self-Repair (STSR) in an Interview

Abstract

The article aims to explored turn repair strategies by the speakers during a conversation. Turn taking is an important aspect of conversation analysis research. Focus of this study is limited to self-repair strategies used by the speakers during conversation. Data for the study is as interview by Joseph Downing, an American painter. The study follows mix method research that is a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Theoretical background of the study is Zsuzsanna Németh’s (2012) idea of self-repair strategies used by the speakers to achieve their interactional goals. The results prove that the speakers use STSR strategies of recycling, restating and replacing while they are involved in interviews and they are facilitated by listeners to use these strategies and to make their speech clear and correct. The study recommends the analysis of self-repair strategies in other conversational context for discovering the socio-cultural aspects behind the repair of the speech.