Abstract for A Practice for (Re-)Exiting a Sequence: And/But/So + Uh(m) + Silence
The topic here is a use of “uh/m” as a resource
for exiting -- or more commonly re-exiting --
a sequence. In this usage, “uh/m” appears in
conjunction with a conjunction – “And uh(m),”
“But uh(m),” or “So uh(m)” -- each of which is
included in the little set of data extracts to
which this contribution is limited. Unlike the
previously encountered “uh(m)”s, these ones
appear to require at least a bit of silence
following them to do their work, but this
silence is not itself the trouble or its
tacit harbinger; absent the silence, the
work of these little constructions is more
problematic.
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