A spoken language technique is fillers. Fillers are words or sounds that are spoken in a conversation when one person has to think what they are going to say but have not finished speaking. Alan Sugar uses the filler “Urm”, after the candidates have discussed if Arjun was a good team leader and also uses the filler “okay” a lot to give him time to think before he speaks his next sentence. ‘The Apprentice’ candidate Emma uses the filler, “erm,” three times whilst discussing Arjun as a team leader, she says “erm,” to fill in the pause while she is thinking of what else to say. Alan Sugar repeatedly says, ‘you know,’ after he has finished speaking. He does this to indicate that he has finished a sentence and everyone else can start talking again. …show more content…
He also uses the filler “I dunno... I dunno” after speaking to Arjun about him being “to nice of a guy”. He also pauses just before he decides who he is going to fire and changes the tone in his voice to build tension to the audience and the candidates. ‘The Apprentice’ candidate Brett uses the filler ‘Like’ when he says ‘I’m not claiming to be, ‘like’, an expert.’ He says this just after it is suggested that he was solely responsible for the fish cake sizes. He uses this filler because he feels like he shouldn’t be responsible for the size of the fish cakes and should be his other team members fault as