The literature on English suggests that turn-initial no fulfils a variety of discourse-pragmatic functions beyond its use as a negative response to polar questions.
Elena N. Malyuga, Michael McCarthy
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Ei saa me läbi “Pragmaatika” korpuseta. Korpuspragmaatika ja pragmaatikakorpus [PDF]
Within the project “Pragmatics above grammar: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in Estonian registers and text types” (PRG341) we are studying the expression of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in different written and spoken registers of modern ...
Külli Prillop +3 more
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The Study of the Use of the Discursive Marker Para Empezar: Identification of its Values
In this work we intend to analyse, mainly from a pragmatic approach, real examples obtained from the Corpus del español in order to determine with scientific value the features which characterize in context the discourse marker para empezar.
María Pilar Sanchis Cerdán
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ἔγραψέ μοι γάρ ... τὰ νῦν οὖν γράφω σοι. οὖν and γάρ as inferential and elaborative discourse markers in Greek papyrus letters (I – IV AD) [PDF]
I analyse the use of the particles οὖν and γάρ in a corpus of documentary texts ranging from the first to the fourth century AD. I attempt to answer three main research questions: (i) with what frequency are οὖν and γάρ used; was one of these particles ...
Bentein, Klaas
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Article Hedges vs boosters: Communicative mitigation and enhancement in the genre of dissertation review [PDF]
The article presents the results of the cross-disciplinary research which focuses on the two types of discourse markers – hedges and boosters and their use in Russian official dissertation reviews.
Viktorova, Elena Yurievna
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ELLIPSIS AS A MARKER OF INTERACTION IN SPOKEN DISCOURSE [PDF]
In this article, we discuss strategies for interaction in spoken discourse, focusing on ellipsis phenomena in English. The data comes from the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca, and we analyse education data in the form of seminar and workshop ...
Chun +64 more
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Diskurtso-markatzaile berri bat: "hurrenez hurren" birformulatzailea
This article examines aspects of the use of a new discourse marker in present-day Basque, namely hurrenez hurren. First of all a distinction will be drawn between its two present senses: the adverbial notion of 'one after the other' (hurrenez hurren-1 ...
Xabier Alberdi
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Monitoring discourse in translation: Analysis of the Qur’anic elaborative discourse marker “wa” in parallel corpora [PDF]
Discourse is monitored through the employment of discourse markers in the process of human communication. The present article investigated two translations of the most frequent, complex, and ambiguous Qur’anic discourse marker wa into the Persian ...
Ali Mohammadi
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Discourse Markers and Modal Expressions in Speakers with and without Asperger Syndrome: A Pragmatic-Perceptive Approach [PDF]
From a theoretical point of view, this paper offers a new framework for the analysis of discourse markers: a pragmatic-perceptive model that emphasizes the point of the communication process in which such particles become more relevant. Furthermore, this
Muñoz, Francisco J. Rodríguez
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This paper explores the theoretical mechanisms of marking two discourse values, SURPRISE and IMPATIENCE, encoded in the syntax of Ghamdi dialect of Arabic (GA) by the discourse marker haweɪh, which instantiates the head Prt of PrtP.
Alshamari Murdhy, Al-Ghamdi Naimah
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