Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

S1
: yeah] totally screwing around and like I couldn’t get [
S3
: mhm] 
this really simple thing done, so I don’t, I like, [
S1
: I think you should 

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include that] I know I get I don’t know if I should 
I mean
 I, I feel like on 
one hand I should but on the other hand it was like a ten-minute project 
or whatever.
S1
yeah and you got a little break like you weren’t actually working you were 
just kinda waiting.
S3 
yeah
Example (4) includes two tokens of 
I mean
, both applied in the function of 
delay device. The former occurs in the final position within the speaker’s turn 
(cf. Speaker 3 above) although originally it was probably not intended to be used 
in this position. However, Speaker 2 interrupts Speaker 3 and takes over. As 
the example testifies, all participants frequently speak simultaneously, which is 
indicated in square brackets, and use false starts, hesitation features and markers 
such as 
like
, 
well, kinda
and, of course, 
I mean
, which is regarded as a 
filler by 
some studies (cf. Leech and Svartvik 1994, discussed in Section 2).