Self-repair

In conversation analysis, self-repair is a repair that is performed by the speaker of the utterance that needs repair (Levinson 1983:340–341).

Examples
In the following exchange, the last turn is a self-repair:
 * A: I need a new bolt for my oil filter.
 * B: A BOLT?
 * A: I mean for my oil PAN.

The following is a self-initiated self-repair:
 * I need a new bolt for my oil filt—um, PAN.

Subtypes

 * reformulation
 * third turn repair

Link
self-repair in SIL's Glossary of linguistic terms

Reference

 * Levinson, Stephen C. 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.