The Importance of Discourse Markers in Conversation

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Amana are actually filled pauses so those are fundamentally and functionally different than uh filler words which is what you were talking about previously. Amana in fact are usually more likely to occur when someone has not rehearsed what they're going to say but I don't think there's anything wrong with using them in a case where I'm giving a public talk for example or I'm on television as a hostI would expect it to be more practice and therefore it would probably be less valuable to use those in those contexts oh myMystery: Are There Any Words We Can Use To Describe People? airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m., 10 p.

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