Discovery of Backchannel Responses - Essay Example

Dear I have been very unwell, had to be hospitalized, hence the delay. The mistakes you saw in the paper are rectified and explained below: 1. The reference of Charles C. Fries is important because it talks about the discovery of backchannel responses. You could add (1952) in the paper and put this reference in the bibliography. Fries, C. (1952) The Structure of English. New York: Harcourt Brace. 2. Fries in the second reference is also (1952). 3. The reference to Schegloff is for year (1982) and you can use the following reference – Schegloff, E. (1982) Discourse as an interactional achievement: some uses of ‘uh huh’ and other things that come between sentences.

In: Tannen, D. eds. (1982) Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics). 1st ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, p.71-93. 4. Pragmalinguistics refers to the resources for conveying communicative acts and relational or interpersonal meanings. The word is not a mistake and has been used here intentionally. You can refer to it further in Eli Hinkel’s study. 5. “where backchannel responses have found new meaning in social media like Facebook, Twitter and the like.

Here they shape interpretation of conversations and convey pleasure, happiness, approval, censure and condemnation, through its various usage” – The reason why I said this in the conclusion is because I want to show the relevance of backchannel responses in the new age where cultures interact more online than in real life. I am trying to bring in a new age connectivity to the term and how it is used. It is to show to your professor that you have the potential of exploring beyond the normal.

If you still want to change it and put in something old and talked about, please do so. These are my comments.