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This article investigates the speech of Humanities and Natural Science instructors and students in German and American lectures and interactional classes. It describes cross-cultural variation in these two academic genres using naturally occurring language data. This cross-cultural comparison focuses on linguistic items and behaviors that serve primarily interactional and structural functions, as...
This research examines the use of the discourse markers (DMs) you know, like, oh, well, yeah, and I mean in two speech contexts-interviews and casual conversations-to determine their role in marking and negotiating speaker roles. The DMs oh and well show statistically significant differences in rates of use between contexts, with both of these DMs occurring more frequently in conversations. Despite...
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