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“The uh deconstructed pumpkin pie”: the use of 'uh' and 'um' in Los Angeles restaurant server talk

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2021
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Staley, L., & Jucker, A. H. (2021). “The uh deconstructed pumpkin pie”: the use of “uh” and “um” in Los Angeles restaurant server talk. Journal of Pragmatics, 172, 21–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.11.004

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Recent work on the elements uh and um has focused both on their functional profile and on the sociodemographic patterns of use. They have been shown to be more than just a signal of some trouble in the speech production process; they also perform text structuring functions that are usually ascribed to discourse markers. And their use has been shown to stratify according to gender, age and level of education (e.g. Tottie 2011, 2014). However, such work has not always been sufficiently controlled for context. Differences that were ident

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172

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21

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34

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Linguistics and Language, Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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2021-01-01

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2020-12-01

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0378-2166

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80 since deposited on 2020-12-01
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167 since deposited on 2020-12-01
Acq. date: 2025-11-13

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Staley, L., & Jucker, A. H. (2021). “The uh deconstructed pumpkin pie”: the use of “uh” and “um” in Los Angeles restaurant server talk. Journal of Pragmatics, 172, 21–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.11.004

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