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 ...
Russian Language Journal / Русский язык, Vol. 72, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Collaboration Beyond the Classroom: Undergraduate Research in Russian Language Studies (2022), pp. 127-150 (24 pages) Aijmer, ...
MOST conversations in speaking or writing contexts are usually prefaced with discourse markers. Why is this fitting, and why are discourse markers inevitable in communication? This article discusses ...
Perhaps it is not surprising that inviting people to reconsider the merits of disliked speech features generates a bit of controversy. After all, we are nothing if not wedded to our firm beliefs about ...
The aim of this article is to demonstrate the intricate operation of the adverb 'also' in actual interaction at a level of detail that dictionary definitions have failed to capture. Using primarily a ...
Perhaps it is not surprising that inviting people to reconsider the merits of disliked speech features generates a bit of controversy. After all, we are nothing if not wedded to our firm beliefs about ...
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 ...
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