On the Systematic Deployment of Okay and Mmhmm in Academic Advising Sessions

making available the data which she collected for her doctoral dissertation in the Interdepartmental Program in Applied Linguistics at UCLA, 1993; John Heritage for all of his help and guidance on the many earlier versions of this paper; and Marianne Celce-Murcia for her insightful comments and for originally suggesting okay as a phenomenon worth studying. Pragmatics 7:3.397-415 International Pragmatics Association

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