IN addition to the discourse markers discussed last week, there are several more to be pointed out this week. As earlier highlighted, discourse markers are words and expressions used to show how ...

New research suggests that people who use filler speech and discourse markers are more thoughtful than those that don't. Like, y'know? There are plenty of habits that we know we have that annoy other ...

AUSTIN, Texas, June 10 (UPI) --A new study published by the Journal of Language and Social Psychology says that individuals who use filler words such as "you know," "um" and "like" are more likely to ...

Um, don’t you get, you know, annoyed by verbal clutter? Nothing sinks a public speaker quicker than an overdose of ums and uhs. Professional yakkers are expected to purge their speech of such lexical ...

So, like, it turns out that the way you, like, use certain words can, you know, say things about your, um, personality. Which, you know, makes sense, because, like, people who think about what they ...

So, like, does it bother you the way some people speak? Some of us use what are called "discourse markers" in conversation. A linguistics professor at Seattle Pacific University says discourse markers ...

The overuse of the word “like” is a pet peeve of many people, and it’s more often associated with ditzy teenagers than effective communicators. Daily Muse writer Sara McCord said she was called out on ...

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