1. Repair in Talk
Sixth Week

2. Turns
Situation: It is snowing very hard. A: Is it close? (1) B: No, it is not. (2) See, it is open. (3) A: I mean the road. (4) B: Oh, thought you were askin about the bar (5)

3. What do you mean?

4. Miscommunication Have you experienced miscommunication in your talk?
What is the cause of miscommunication?
How can we avoid it?
Is it true that good talk must not consist of miscommunication?

5. Miscommunication Are these the same? Misunderstanding Mishearing
Non-understanding
Not hearing
Misinterpretation
Joking

6. In our discussion,…
….the process of fixing miscommunication will be referred to as “repair”, ….we will be using “trouble source” to refer to “the cause of miscommunication”.

7. Miscommunication Repair deals with …… Misunderstanding Mishearing
Non-understanding
Not hearing
Misinterpretation
Joking
Also
Correction
Word search

8. Talk analysts look at… The cause of miscommunication.
Is it far from the repair?
How many turns away?
Will it be repaired?
Who repairs miscommunication?
The person who causes it?
Everyone else.
Is the miscommunication repaired successfully??

9. How does turn-taking lead to repair?
A: Which one::s are closed, an which ones are open. Z: Most of’em. This, this, // this, this ((pointing)) A: I’on’t mean on the shelters, I mean on the roads Z: Oh:.
Conversation Analysis

10. Conversation Analysis
Types of Repair
Types of repair depend on who initiates and/or completes the repair.
Mainly, there are two parties involved in repair
The owner of the source (self)
Other people in the talk (other)
Conversation Analysis

11. Conversation Analysis
Types of Repair
Self-initiated self-repair
Self-initiated other-repair
Other-initiated self-repair
Other-initiated other-repair
Conversation Analysis

12. Self-initiated self-repair
L: An’ ‘en bud all of the doors’n things were taped up=
*L: = I mean y’know they put up y’know that kinda paper’r stuff,
** L: the brown paper.
Conversation Analysis

13. Self-initiated self-repair
A: …then we went to see Mike uh, oh shit.. .can’t think of his last name. OH Murphy, yes, right Murphy.
Conversation Analysis

14. Self-initiated self-repair
F: ….we met Carol on Friday, well she was fine, she sold the house on Lexington Ave and moved to Upper West Side. Oh it was Tuesday actually.
Conversation Analysis

15. Self-initiated self-repair
G: The trip was great. It was not hot in Florida at all. H: Great. G: Oh it was not Florida we went but Iowa.
Conversation Analysis

16. Self-initiated other-repair
A: He had dis uh Mistuh W-whatever
* k-I can’t think of his first name, Watts on, the one thet wrote // that piece,
**B: Dan Watts.
Conversation Analysis

17. Other-initiated self-repair
* A: Why did I turn out this way?
** B: You mean homosexual?
*** A: Yes.
Conversation Analysis

18. Other-initiated self-repair
G: Is he sick? H: Who? G: Mark.
Conversation Analysis

19. Other-initiated other-repair
*A: I jst graded the students’ work an Tony didn’t pass **B: Tony? No boy named Tony in our class, I guess you’re talking about Tommy. Tommy you know had financial problem so he always skipped the class. A: Eh--yeah
Conversation Analysis

20. Other-initiated other-repair
D: The meeting was handled.
F: Handled???? It WAS cancelled.
D: Did I say “handled”?, yes cancelled.
Conversation Analysis

21. Revisited:
Other-initiated self repair D: Did he get married or anything? H: Huh? D: Did he get married?

22. Other-initiated self repair
F: Worried, lots of pimples. G: Have you ever tried a clinic? F: What?

23. Other-initiated self repair
L: My car is very clean. Mick cleaned it D: Who? L: Mick

24. Other-initiated self repair
A: I’m goin to Bermuda for a holiday. B: Where? A: Bermuda.

25. Assignment 2 (15%) Listen to a conversation among your family members.
Roughly transcribe the talk in which repair is found (3 incidences of repair; 2%x3= 6%).
Identify the trouble source (1%x3=3%). Describe the nature of the trouble source.
Indicate whether it is (1%x3=3%):
Self-initiated other-repair,
Other-initiated self-repair, or
Other-initiated other-repair

26. Assignment 2 (15%) Explain how misunderstanding is solved (1%x3).
Put the dialog first, followed by the description in a paragraph format which consists of no. 3-5 above.
No of words for each paragraph is 100 words.
Due: June 22nd midnight.