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Publication details [#49093]

Lange, Patricia G. 2008. An implicature for um: signaling relative expertise. Discourse Studies 10 (2) : 191–204.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

implicature | knowledge | meaning

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper on the meaning of 'um', often conceived of as powerless language, argues that participants in online communities may employ um to mark an obvious flaw in prior speech.