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Interjections as pragmatic markers

Journal of Pragmatics, 2009
Interjections in everyday talk routinely function as pragmatic markers, initiating utterances and relating them to the foregoing interaction. In turn-initial position, one finds both primary interjections like oh and mhm and secondary interjections like wow and boy.
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Pragmatic markers in Chinese

Journal of Pragmatics, 2008
This article presents a principled and systematic description of pragmatic markers in Chinese. Pragmatic markers (and a range of interconnected categories including discourse particles and the like) in English and some other languages have been the subject of intensive investigation.
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Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries

2021
The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic markers in the left versus the right periphery fulfill ...
Daniël Van Olmen, Jolanta Šinkūnienė
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