Wiltschko and her students have now investigated more than 20 languages, and each of them uses small words for negotiations such as this. “I have not found a language that does not do these three general things: what I know, what I think you know and make turn,” she says. They are the key to regulating conversations, she adds: “We are building the common basis and we are in turn.”
Details such as these are not only Arcana for linguists to observe. The correct use of intermediate draws is an important part of sounding fluent in speaking a second language, remarks Wiltschko, but they often ignore teachers in language. “When it comes to language education, you get points deducted to use hurryS and uhS, because you are 'not fluent', “she says. “But native speakers use them because it helps! They must be learned. “Artificial intelligence can also have difficulty using interwagnessions, she notes, making them the best way to distinguish between a computer and a real person.
And topics also offer a window in interpersonal relationships. “These little markings say so much about what you think,” she says – and they are more difficult to control than the actual content. Perhaps mating therapists, for example, would discover that intermediaries offer useful insights into how their clients consider each other and how they negotiate in a conversation about power. The intermediate Oh Often the confrontation signals, she says, as in the difference between “Do you want to go out for dinner?” And “Oh, so now you want to go out for dinner?”
Indeed, these little words go directly to the heart of the language and for which it is. “Language exists because we have to communicate together,” says Börstell. “For me that is the main reason for language that is so successful.”
Dingemanse goes one step further. Inter ', he says, not only facilitating our conversations. When negotiating points of view and grounding, they are also how language talks about talking.
“Of Huh?You don't just say “I didn't understand,” says Dingemanse. “It is” I understand that you are trying to tell me something, but I didn't understand. “” That reflexivity makes more refined speech and thought possible. Indeed, he says, “I don't think we would have a complex language if it wasn't for these simple words.”
