On the systematic deployment of okay and mmhmm in academic advising sessions

Abstract

I would like to thank the following people for their contributions to this work: Agnes Weiyun He for 1 making available the data which she collected for her doctoral dissertation in the Interdepartmental Program in Applied Linguistics at UCLA, 1993; John Heritage for all of his help and guidance on the many earlier versions of this paper; and Marianne Celce-Murcia for her insightful comments and for originally suggesting okay as a phenomenon worth studying.