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A constructional perspective on the rise of metatextual discourse markers

open access: yesCadernos de Linguística, 2021
Cognitive linguistics seeks to account for “a speaker’s knowledge of the full range of linguistic conventions” (LANGACKER, 1987; also GOLDBERG, 2006).
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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Interjections Functioned as Pragmatic Markers and Given/ New Information

open access: yesCelt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature, 2018
The purposes of this research are to find out the functions of the interjections functioned as pragmatic markers and what they indicate to, to find out which information the interjections denote and to find out how many functions the interjections ...
Maya Lisa Aryanti
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The Impact of Developing the EFL University Students' Awareness in the Use of Pragmatic Markers on their Essay Writing ability

open access: yesمجلة الآداب, 2020
Writing is not only employs the procedure of a good written text, but depicts and values the coherence as well as the cohesion, too. Composing a lot of sentences without considering the cohesive ties fails to negotiate the inter-related events intended ...
Walaa Jabbar Katti
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West Flemish verb-based discourse markers and the articulation of the Speech Act layer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper focuses on the West Flemish discourse markers located at the edge of the clause. After a brief survey of the distribution of discourse markers in WF, the paper proposes a syntactic analysis of the discourse markers ne and we.
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Establishing diagnostic criteria: the role of clinical pragmatics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The study of pragmatic disorders is of interest to speech-language pathologists who have a professional responsibility to assess and treat communication impairments.
Cummings, L
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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo (Bantu, H16), i.e.
Bostoen, Koen   +3 more
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Towards a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena : the case of the Spanish interpersonal epistemic stance construction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study contributes to a better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to discourse-level phenomena, and constitute a valuable complementation to previous grammaticalization accounts of pragmatic markers.
Enghels, Renata
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Pragmatic Markers in Eugene O’Neill’s Ile: Discourse Coherence Relations

open access: yesNobel: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching, 2015
This study aimed to investigate the types of pragmatic markers in a drama entitled Ile. The study is based on Fraser’s theories of pragmatic markers and discourse coherence relations.
Riza Astutie, Rommy D. B. Rambet
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Discourse Markers and Modal Expressions in Speakers with and without Asperger Syndrome: A Pragmatic-Perceptive Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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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Is “Back to my Point” a Pragmatic Marker? An Inquiry into the Historical Development of some Metatextual Discourse Management Markers in English

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2020
Discourse management markers (DMMs) that “signal a meta-comment on the structure of the discourse” (Fraser 2009) are widely attested in historical data. Most discourse management markers (e.g.
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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