Slips of the Tongue and Repair Strategies in TV Show “Tonight Show Indonesia”

Abstract

The most common mistake in daily conversation is speech errors, and one of them caused by slip of the tongue. This study aimed to discover types of repair strategy in slips of the tongue which came from the speaker in the "Tonight Show Indonesia". This study used a descriptive qualitative design, and data were taken from the transcriptions of seven YouTube videos of "Tonight Show Indonesia" that contained slips of the tongue and repairs in the conversations. To analyze the slips of the tongue and repairs, researchers used psycholinguistics approach and conversation analysis theory. This study analyzed the slips of the tongue based on Wells (1951), Hockett (1967), Fromkin (1971) and repairs in the conversation from Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks (1977). The results showed that there were six out seven types of slips of the tongue occurred in the conversations, namely anticipation, preservation, transpositions, substitutions, blends, counter blends, and haplologies. The most dominant type was substitutions. The results also showed that the slips of the tongue appeared in the conversations with different types of repairs. The speaker used self-initiated self-repair more frequently than other types of repair strategy in the conversations.