What is the origin of the phrase Mind your p's and q's ? 1. The letters p and q, with the lowercase letters being a mirror image of...
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Types of conversation repairs
In the last post on conversation repairs , we mentioned that there are 4 possible ways to resolve them. Here's an explanation and examp...
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Conversation Repairs
When we have to correct ourselves (or others) while speaking, we make a conversation repair . Repairs can be initiated and resolved by the s...
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Hesitation Particles, hmm...
What is a hesitation particle? Sometimes known as filled pauses , they often precede a dispreferred response in a conversation. Instead of...
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Preferred responses
There are 2 kinds of possible responses to speech acts: preferred and dispreferred . Preferred responses are those that are culturally exp...
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