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Linguistics Research Digest: December 2014
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Thursday, 4 December 2014. Uh-huh. Mhm. Wow": How Backchannels influence the Story. Reproduced with permission: http:/ portermason.com/johnny/1998/01/26/credit-card-offer/. When we hear someone telling a story or narrating an event, it is not uncommon to hear listeners responding with mhm. In a recent study on such responses, researchers Jackson Tolin. And Jean E. Fox Tree. Argue that these backchannels,. As they are called, actually do influence the narrative. When a listener responded with a specific b...
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Welcome to the Department of Linguistics. Dr Erez Levon publishes in the Financial Times. Are you speaking my language? British Library panel with Devyani Sharma. London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership wins ESRC funding bid. QMUL PhD student Hui Zhao gives two talks. QMUL at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 15-18th June Murcia. Special Invited Talk: Dr Meredith Tamminga Architectural implications of the dynamics of variation 1 June 2016. PhD awarded: Dr. Pavadee Saisuwan.
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Linguistics Research Digest: March 2014
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Sunday, 30 March 2014. It's her personality man's looking at. I don't mind how my girl looks. it's her personality man's looking at. London English has a new pronoun. Young people living in multicultural areas of the inner city use man. As an alternative to I. Sometimes the meaning could be indefinite: in the caption to the picture Alex’ man. Pronoun could perhaps be replaced by you. In its general sense of ‘anyone’) or even one. But in other examples, like (1) below, man. 1) didn’t I tell you man. Said ...
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Linguistics Research Digest: August 2014
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Tuesday, 5 August 2014. Dear Digest readers,. The Digest team will be taking a break during August. This year has been especially busy for the Digest team and we have sometimes been a bit erratic in the postings, but we hope to resume regular weekly postings in September. There has been a huge growth in the number of people reading the Digest and the number of followers also continues to grow. Please tell your colleagues/students/friends about us so that we can reach as many people as possible. British L...
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Linguistics Research Digest: January 2015
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Monday, 5 January 2015. The truth about British tag questions. Why do we use tag questions? I bet you`ve heard about tag questions (TQs) before, haven`t you? But, apart from knowing what kind of question they are, have you actually thought about what these TQs actually do? The thought that there might be more to questions than just a request for information has previously crossed a number of minds, some of them belonging to professional linguists. For instance, Ditte Kimps. The criteria used in the categ...
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Linguistics Research Digest: June 2014
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Monday, 9 June 2014. The Jenny Cheshire Lecture in Sociolinguistics 2014. Professor David Britain: "English in Paradise? A new variety in the Pacific". Friday 13th June 2013, 6.30pm, Maths Lecture Theatre, School of Mathematica Sciences, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary, University of London. For more details and to book a free place at this event click here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow The Linguistics Research Digest by Email. MA in Linguistics at Queen Mary. Browse digest by Category. Your blog is fa...
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Linguistics Research Digest: "Uh-huh. Mhm. Wow": How Backchannels influence the Story
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Thursday, 4 December 2014. Uh-huh. Mhm. Wow": How Backchannels influence the Story. Reproduced with permission: http:/ portermason.com/johnny/1998/01/26/credit-card-offer/. When we hear someone telling a story or narrating an event, it is not uncommon to hear listeners responding with mhm. In a recent study on such responses, researchers Jackson Tolin. And Jean E. Fox Tree. Argue that these backchannels,. As they are called, actually do influence the narrative. When a listener responded with a specific b...
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