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The polysemy of discourse markers: The case of pronto in Portuguese
Journal of Pragmatics, 2006The aim of this paper is to analyze the meanings and functions of the Portuguese discourse marker pronto, using an oral corpus. The functional polysemy of this lexical item, which is usually viewed rather pejoratively as a mere filler, has resulted from a recent process of grammaticalization of the adjective pronto ('ready, quick'), with the meanings ...
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An Account of Discourse Markers
International Review of Pragmatics, 2009AbstractDiscourse Markers (DMs) have been a topic of research for 30 years under many different names. The present paper presents an account of one view of DMs with the aim of providing researchers in the field with a coherent definition of DMs and a presentation of the syntactic and semantic properties of this functional category that will enable them
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Unpacking the function(s) of discourse markers in academic spoken English: a corpus-based study
The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani
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Functions and Levels of Discourse of Discourse Markers
مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة, 2022openaire +1 more source