Where do we backchannel? On the use of mm, mhm, uh huh and such like

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-112

  Kjellmer, Göran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Backchannel; Collocational bonding; Gender relations; Interference; Nexus constructions

Indexed keywords

EID: 64949110897     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.1.05kje     Document Type: Article

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