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26. Editors' Note

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Schachter, Stanley and Gazzaniga, Michael

Published
1990

30. Looking Backward

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Schachter, Stanley and Gazzaniga, Michael

Published
1990

33. Subject Index

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Schachter, Stanley and Gazzaniga, Michael

Published
1990

35. Name Index

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Schachter, Stanley and Gazzaniga, Michael

Published
1990

36. Preface

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Schachter, Stanley and Gazzaniga, Michael

Published
1990

39. Cover

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Schachter, Stanley and Gazzaniga, Michael

Published
1990

41. Introduction

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Schachter, Stanley and Gazzaniga, Michael

Published
1990

46. The vocabularies of academia

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Schachter, Stanley, Rauscher, Frances, Christenfeld, Nicholas, and Crone, Kimberly Tyson

Subjects
Humanists, Journalism, Speech -- Research, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

Humanists use filled pauses such as 'uh,' 'ah,' or 'um' in their lectures more than social or natural scientists. Based on the hypothesis that pauses indicate time out while the speaker searches for the next word or phrase, it is assumed that a speaker who is more likely to use pauses is a humanist, because humanities are characterized by richer vocabularies than the sciences. The findings are not restricted to academics only because, even in newspaper accounts, journalists are more likely to use rich vocabulary in describing stories of art rather than science.

Published
1994

47. Speech disfluency and the structure of knowledge

Author

Schachter, Stanley, Christenfeld, Nicholas, Ravina, Bernard, and Bilous, Frances

Subjects
Psycholinguistics -- Research, Human information processing -- Research, Juncture (Linguistics) -- Psychological aspects, Verbal behavior -- Research, Psychology and mental health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

It is generally accepted that filled pauses ('uh,' 'er,' and 'um') indicate time out while the speaker searches for the next word or phrase. It is hypothesized that the more options, the more likely that a speaker will say 'uh.' The academic disciplines differ in the extent to which their subject matter and mode of thought require a speaker to choose among options. The more formal, structured, and factual the discipline, the fewer the options. It follows that lecturers in the humanities should use more filled pauses during lectures than social scientists and that natural scientists should use fewest of all. Observations of lecturers in 10 academic disciplines indicate that this is the case. That this is due to subject matter rather than to self-selection into disciplines is suggested by observations of this same set of lecturers all speaking on a common subject. In this circumstance, the academic disciplines are identical in the number of filled pauses used.

Published
1991

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