Discourse Markers in an Online Community of Buhînën People
One of the language communication challenges is how it works as speakers use it. Some words may not change their semantic meaning, but when it is meant to say on speaker’s intention, it impacts the context; these particles are discourse markers.
Marlon Pontillas, Francis Roi Rañada
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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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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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Cancellative discourse markers [PDF]
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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Marcadores del discurso derivados de los verbos de percepción: un análisis comparativo entre el español y el italiano [PDF]
Despite the growing interest in discourse markers over the past two decades, few studies are dedicated to the interlinguistic comparison of discourse markers.
Alonso-Cortés +55 more
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Parenthetical 'I say (you)' in Late Medieval Greek vernacular: a message structuring discourse marker rather than a message conveying verb [PDF]
In this paper, I argue that the first-person singular of the "ordinary" verb lambda epsilon gamma omega/lambda alpha lambda(omega) over tilde ('I say') in the thirteenth-to fourteenth-century political verse narratives Chronicle of Morea and War of Troy ...
Soltic, Jorie
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Discourse markers in the expository writing of Spanish university students [PDF]
The aim of this study is to investigate the use of discourse markers in the expository compositions of Spanish undergraduates. Compositions were collected from a sample of 78 first-year English students at the faculty of Chemistry of the University of ...
Ana Cristina Lahuerta Martínez
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Discourse markers in the European Parliamentary Discourse: gender aspect [PDF]
This paper aims to explore and analyze the similarities and gender differences in the use of discourse markers in the speeches of men and women politicians in the European Parliament during the debate, devoted to the topic of “Brexit”.
Chernousova Yuliana A. +1 more
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Meta-discourse markers constitute a significant part of a reader friendly text. This study focused on the types and frequency of meta-discourse markers in applied linguistics book reviews (BR) published in ISI and non-ISI journals.
Neda Soleimani, Ebrahim Mohammadkhah
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A Study of Discourse Markers Employed in College English Writing by Non-English Majors [PDF]
Discourse marker is a common language phenomenon in verbal communication including parts of conjunctions, adverbs, interjections, some phrases and small words. From the perspective of grammar, these modifiers do not have many a semantic meanings and they
Lu Haixia
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