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Discourse markers and discourse relations

2017
Abstract We investigate if and how Discourse Markers (DMs) can be integrated into a dynamic semantic framework (in the SDRT variant, cf. Asher & Lascarides 2003, 2008, 2009) in order to study the relationships between discursive markers and rhetoric relations in a dialogue.
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Are apposition markers discourse markers?

Journal of Linguistics, 1996
This paper aims to re-assess the notion DISCOURSE MARKER as it is applied to a subset of so-called apposition markers. It is argued that the classification of markers of reformulation as discourse markers alongside expressions like but and so is incoherent from a semantic point of view, since this ignores the distinction between PROCEDURAL and ...
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Discourse markers as stance markers

Pragmatics & Cognition, 2013
Stance is inherent in conversational interaction and is interactional in nature. When speakers take a stance, they pay attention to both prior stances and stance relations, as well as to the anticipated consequences of their stancetaking. They manage stance relations as a way of dealing with the “sociocognitive relations” of intersubjectivity (Du Bois ...
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The Rise of Discourse Markers

2021
Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication, and research on this phenomenon has been a thriving field of study over the past three decades. However, a problem that has plagued this research is that these markers exhibit a number of structural characteristics that are hard to interpret based on existing methodologies ...
Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva, Haiping Long   +3 more
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Discourse Markers

1987
Discourse markers - the particles oh, well, now, then, you know and I mean, and the connectives so, because, and, but and or - perform important functions in conversation. Dr Schiffrin's approach is firmly interdisciplinary, within linguistics and sociology, and her rigourous analysis clearly demonstrates that neither the markers, nor the discourse ...
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Acquiring the meaning of discourse markers

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL '04, 2004
This paper applies machine learning techniques to acquiring aspects of the meaning of discourse markers. Three subtasks of acquiring the meaning of a discourse marker are considered: learning its polarity, veridicality, and type (i.e. causal, temporal or additive). Accuracy of over 90% is achieved for all three tasks, well above the baselines.
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On the rise of discourse markers

2021
Abstract Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to account for these properties. Most commonly, such
Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva, Haiping Long   +3 more
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Discourse Markers in Oral Narrative

Journal of Pragmatics, 2001
This chapter seeks to demonstrate that well and but function as a special sort of discourse marker (DM) in oral narratives, and that their functions within the oral narrative context follow neither from their usual meanings nor from their usual DM functions in other contexts.
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Do discourse markers exist? On the treatment of discourse markers in Relevance Theory

Journal of Pragmatics, 2008
Abstract This paper critically reviews three Relevance Theory (RT) ideas on connectives: the distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning, connectives as strictly procedural elements, and monosemy as the best explanation of multifunctional connectives.
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Preface to: Discourse markers

Discourse Processes, 1997
Spooren, W., Risselada, R.
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