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Discourse Markers Used in Short Series Movie ‘Friends' and Its Relation with English Language Teaching [PDF]
, 2016 Language is primarily speech. This paper discusses discourse markers. They are used for various purposes like to create a smooth flow of thoughts and to make the interlocutors easily understand.
Sada, C. (Clarry) +2 more
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Discourse Marker Sequencing and Grammaticalization
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2013 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This paper deals with the grammatical properties of discourse markers (DMs), specifically their ordering preferences relative to one another. While the data presented here are synchronic, we approach the topic of DM sequencing from the perspective of grammaticalization.
Koops, Christian, Lohmann, Arne
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Reliable discourse markers for contrast relations [PDF]
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics - IWCS-8 '09, 2009 Using the RST annotated corpus [Carlson et al., 2003], we use sim-ple statistics on the distribution of discourse markers or cue phrases as evidence of the three-way distinction of Contrast relations, Con-trast, Antithesis and Concession, recognized in standard Rhetor-ical Structure Theory (RST, Mann and Thompson 1987).
Spenader, Jennifer, Lobanova, Anna
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Cancellative discourse markers [PDF]
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2022 3 Although neither Quirk et al. (1985) nor Halliday and Hasan (1976) use the term discourse markers, I take it as non-controversial that, for the most part, the lexical items they discuss may fairly be described as discourse markers. Whereas Quirk et al.
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Ingroup/outgroup dynamics and agency markers in Italian parliamentary language. A gender-based socio-psychological analysis of the speeches of men and women deputies (2001 and 2006). [PDF]
, 2017 The most recent literature on gender differences in language use has shown that the Italian political communication enacted by men and women parliamentarians only partly reflects and reproduces the asymmetries and stereotypes widespread in society ...
ARENI, Alessandra +2 more
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When words and graphs move the eyes:The processing of multimodal causal relations
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2018 Research on causal relations in multisemiotic texts constituted by words and graphs has been scarce with only a few exceptions. In the current study, eye movement behavior was studied in seventy-six Chilean high school students, who read a set of twelve ...
Giovanni Parodi +2 more
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Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant correlates [PDF]
, 2008 In a first step, definitions of the irreducible information structural categories are given, and in a second step, it is shown that there are no invariant phonological or otherwise grammatical correlates of these categories. In other words, the phonology,
Féry, Caroline
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The intensional profiles of five hungarian imperative sentence types
Linguistica, 2016 The paper investigates Hungarian imperative sentence types from a pragmaticosemantic point of view. In addition to the baseline imperative, it analyzes types with non-standard intonation pattern and/or discourse markers.
Judit Kleiber +2 more
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From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti : a typological perspective [PDF]
, 2010 In many languages, clauses can be subordinated by means of case markers. For Bodic languages, a branch of Sino-Tibetan, Genetti (1986) has shown that the meaning of case markers on clauses is in most instances a natural extension of their function on ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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LIKE IN SIMILES – A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC VIEW [PDF]
, 2013 The paper examines the meaning of like as used in similes in the light of relevance theory. Similes, even though superficially indistinguishable from literal comparisons, are found to be closer to metaphors. Therefore, it is proposed that like in similes
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