This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study examines the functions of the bilingual discourse strategy of language alternation in the process of marking boundaries of ...

Abstract: Research on discourse markers has run into fundamental difficulties recently. First, that group of linguistic items appears to withstand approaches trying to account for them in terms of ...

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 ...

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 ...