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Multimedia Links

• Video: the Big Bang Theory illustrating some flouting of Grice’s conversational maxims
• Video: conversational fillers, from the speaker’s perspective
• Video: The Virtual Linguistics Campus channel on YouTube – an overview of conversation; also some material on deixis and reference. Marburg University
• Video: Philosopher John Searle speaks about language, action, and intentionality. From a series on the Philosophy of Language
• Video: A just-for-fun throw-back tutorial on how to give a successful speech, incorporating gestures.
• Video: But, of course, most of our spontaneous gestures are not so scripted – a TEDx talk by Susan Goldin-Meadow
• Video: an example of the still-face experiment, showing the phases of disconnecting and reconnecting with children during communication
• Audio: disfluencies, like uh or um, help direct children’s attention to certain referents in discourse. Scientific American