Backchannel response
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A backchannel response can be verbal, non-verbal, or both. Backchannel responses are often phatic expressions, primarily serving a social or meta-conversational purpose, such as signifying the listener's attention, understanding, or agreement, rather than conveying significant information. Examples of backchanneling in English include such expressions as "yeah", "uh-huh", "hmm", and "right".[1][2]
Notes
- ↑ Stolcke, A., Ries, K., Coccaro, N., Shriberg, E., Bates, R., Jurafsky, D., ... & Meteer, M. (2000). Dialogue act modeling for automatic tagging and recognition of conversational speech. Computational linguistics, 26(3), 339-373.
- ↑ Heinz, B. M. (1998). Backchannel responses as conversational strategies in bilingual speakers' conversations. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln.