Um, don’t you get, you know, annoyed by verbal clutter? Nothing sinks a public speaker quicker than an overdose of ums and uhs. Professional yakkers are expected to purge their speech of such lexical ...

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Even small, taken-for-granted words can have a strong influence on the pedagogical effect of a writing conference. In this study, we examined how experienced and trained writing center tutors' use of ...

IN addition to the discourse markers discussed last week, there are several more to be pointed out this week. As earlier highlighted, discourse markers are words and expressions used to show how ...

WELCOME to the last part of the series on discourse markers. This week, we will consider discourse markers – words that show the connection between what a speaker is saying and what has already been ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To investigate discourse and interactive functions of quote formula + hey + pseudoquotation, that is, invented quotation, in current English ...

Discourse and pragmatics encompass the study of language as it is used in real contexts, probing not only its formal structure but also the rich, context‐dependent processes by which meaning is ...