:Definition
An apparently meaningless word, phrase, or sound that marks a pause or hesitation in speech. Also known as a pause filler or hesitation form.
Some of the common filler words in English are um, uh, er, ah, like, okay, right, and you know.
Although filler words "may have fairly minimal lexical content," notes linguist Barbara A. Fox, "they can play a strategic syntactic role in an unfolding utterance" (in Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders, 2010). See Examples and Observations, below.
:See also
براي نمايش ادامه اين مطلب بايد عضو شويد !
اگر قبلا ثبت نام کرديد ميتوانيد از فرم زير وارد شويد و مطلب رو مشاهده نماييد !