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2. What is heading?

  • beating around the bush
  • sounds like 'erm' and 'er' to fill a pause
  • need for more than one attempt to utter a word or phrase
  • using words like 'right' and 'you know'

3. What involves moving from one topic to a related topic or from one aspect of the current topic of another?

  • changing
  • resuming
  • shifting
  • drifting

4. What is self-correction?

  • immediate repetition of a word. phrase or clause
  • mitigating the strength of a statement
  • the amendment of a mistake - usually the wrong lexical choice by a speaker
  • The repetition of a word or phrase

5. What is overlapping?

  • shortened expression
  • previous topic overlaps during the conversation
  • one or more participate speaks at the same time
  • utterance which does not follow the rules of written grammer
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