Göran Kjellmer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Göran Kjellmer plays a role.
2009 Where do we backchannel? On the use of mm, mhm, uh huh and such like International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:1, pp. 81–112 | Article
The paper investigates a sample of ‘backchannels’, a kind of response item, in the Cobuild Corpus. Its object is to chart the occurrence of backchannels in modern English speech, and especially to find out if they can indicate how much of a language sequence is needed for a listener to understand… read more
2008 Self-repetition in spoken English discourse The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 37–60 | Article
The objects of the present paper are, first, to chart the occurrence of selfrepetition in the spoken British module “ukspok” in the Cobuild Corpus, and secondly, to present evidence to show that repetition serves a great number of functions, and that far from being an obstacle it is a helpful and… read more
2003 A modal shock absorber, empathiser/emphasiser and qualifier International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 8:2, pp. 145–168 | Article
The modal auxiliary can occasionally occurs, as it seems redundantly, in sentences like “I can promise that you'll like it”, a usage that has sometimes been difficult to explain. Its occurrence in the CobuildDirect Corpus is here investigated, and it appears that it typically occurs with three… read more
