Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders
Editors
Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any resemblance to lexical items they replace, placeholders typically share some morphosyntactic properties with the target form. Additionally, fillers can function as a pragmatic tool, in order to replace lexical items that the speaker wants to avoid mentioning for some reason. The present volume is the first collection on the topic of fillers and will be a useful reference work for future investigations on the topic. It consists of typological surveys and in-depth studies exploring the form and use of fillers across languages and sections of different populations, including cognitively impaired speakers. The volume will be interesting to typologists and linguists working in discourse studies.
[Typological Studies in Language, 93] 2010. vii, 224 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 October 2010
Published online on 26 October 2010
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. vii
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IntroductionBarbara A. Fox | pp. 1–10
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Parameters for typological variation of placeholdersVera I. Podlesskaya | pp. 11–32
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A cross-linguistic exploration of demonstratives in interaction: With particular reference to the context of word-formulation troubleMakoto Hayashi and Kyung-Eun Yoon | pp. 33–66
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Placeholder verbs in Modern GeorgianNino Amiridze | pp. 67–94
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From interrogatives to placeholders in Udi and Agul spontaneous narrativesDmitry Ganenkov, Yury Lander and Timur A. Maisak | pp. 95–118
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Fillers and placeholders in NahavaqLaura Dimock | pp. 119–138
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The interactional profile of a placeholder: The Estonian demonstrative seeLeelo Keevallik | pp. 139–172
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Fillers and their relevance in describing Sliammon SalishHonoré Watanabe | pp. 173–188
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Pauses, fillers, placeholders and formulaicity in Alzheimer’s discourse: Gluing relationships as impairment increasesBoyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan | pp. 189–216
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Language index | p. 217
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Name index | pp. 219–220
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Subject index | pp. 221–224
“This book not only provides breadth in the variety of languages discussed across the chapters, but several of the chapters also provide typological surveys of ways that particular placeholders behave across larger sets of languages via corpora, elicitations, and reports from the literature. Thus, this volume's findings will be a valuable recourse for typologists. The volume is of value, as well, to linguists working on discourse structuring.”
Laurel Smith Stvan, in Studies in Language 35(4): 945-950
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General