Dickens’s Use of Non-Fluency Features in Spoken Discourse

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Kikuchi, S. (2021). Dickens’s Use of Non-Fluency Features in Spoken Discourse, 37-44. Retrieved from http://philologia.org.rs/index.php/ph/article/view/philologia-2016-14-13_14-3
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Title

Dickens’s Use of Non-Fluency Features in Spoken Discourse

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Author

Shigeo, Kikuchi

Journal

Philologia

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Issue
Start page

37

End page

44

ISSN

1820-5682

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http://philologia.org.rs/index.php/ph/article/view/philologia-2016-14-13...

Date

2021-2021/11/08/11:11:51

Abstract

This article examines Charles Dickens’s use of ‘normal non-fluency features’ in his characters’ discourse, and probes the speakers’ and the author’s intent behind the use of them. ‘Normal non-fluency features’ means features of non-fluency in conversation such as hesitation, interruption, gap-fillers and the like. They are, as Hughes (1996: 39) points out, a sign of positive participation by conversational participants. In addition, they have another function when they appear in a written text, because, in the case of a drama, ‘the dramatist must have included them on purpose’ (Short 1996: 177). By looking at a number of Dickens’s works, it is possible to infer that he is particularly interested in family relations.

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Dickens's main concern