This article analyses six types of hesitation markers (short fillers, non-intentional repetitions, unfinished phrases, unfinished words, long fillers, and word lengthening), identified in a corpus of interviews designed by the Comision de Derechos Humanos of the 6th Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal (today Mexico City's Congress) in 2013. These interviews were carried out by representatives ascribed to this legislative entity and its purpose was to find "the best" candidate among a group of citizens, to fill the ombudsperson position at the city's Human Rights local office. After presenting a definition of hesitation marker, I argue that the type of hesitation marker and its frequency show variation patterns that change from one discursive sequence to the other within the interviews; these patterns are also closely related to the discourse planning degree. From this variable correlation, I propose a classification of phenomena based on the discursive functions they have in interaction.
Quesada Nieto, L. B. (2019). Hesitation markers and discursive planning in interviews within Mexico city’s local Congress: the 2013 human rights ombudsperson election. Boletín De Filología, 54(1), pp. 255–282. Retrieved from https://pedagogiaderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/53549
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