Open AccessOn Fillers and Their Possible Functions
Author(s) -
Loredana Frăţilă
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
elope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.182
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2386-0316
pISSN - 1581-8918
DOI - 10.4312/elope.7.2.45-56
Subject(s) - void (composites) , point (geometry) , computer science , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , communication , mathematics , psychology , materials science , philosophy , composite material , geometry
This paper has its departure point in ten interviews conducted by the famous journalist Larry King on the CNN. It sets out to demonstrate that fillers, words and phrases that may carry a negligible if not void semantic load, may, nevertheless, play an important functional role in communication, as discourse markers and interactional signals