Why Language is Always Changing with Valerie Fridland
Factually! with Adam Conover
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The Importance of Interjections in Language
As someone who talks for a living I actually happen to use a lot of interjections. It's so much a feature of my speech that I don't know if I'll ever be able to completely eradicate it. When we're in conversation our job is not only the strict literal semantic information that I'm trying to transmit but also the relationship we have with what I'm saying and how I came to that knowledge. We find that when we remove those discourse markers people hear that speech as less friendly and more robotic so we want them in there so you're just friendlier and not a robot.
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