PAUZY WYPEŁNIONE W WYSTĄPIENIACH NAUKOWYCH ONLINE
FILLED PAUSES IN ONLINE SCIENTIFIC SPEECHES

Summary/Abstract: The author has analysed 40 scientific and popular scientific online speeches with the aim to determine the frequency and types of filled pauses (FPs) occurring there. The research has shown that there are, on average, 41 additional, semantically non-specific, sound elements in five minutes of a scientific speech. The highest frequency (nearly 70% of the recorded FPs) was filled pauses proper (FPPs), that is sounds resembling elongated vowels or syllables: eee, yyy, emmm. Other forms of filling pauses observed were elongations of final positions, repetitions of words or fragments of phrases, retardatory words (prawda, no, tak), and non-language sounds (smacks, grunts). In terms of perception, elongations and repetitions of words seem more recipient-friendly than FPPs or retardatory words.

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