A rapidly expanding body of research deals with a functionally related class of connective
expressions commony referred to as discourse markers. The items typically treated in this …

This chapter reviews three influential perspectives in research on discourse markers:
Schiffrin's discourse perspective, Fraser's pragmatic approach, and Maschler's functional …

Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages
influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and …

It may be that you are a seasoned ethnographer with experience in the social sciences and
humanities, assured of your rich contextual accounts of research participants' social …

Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse Page 1 John Benjamins
Publishing Company Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse Simone …

The production of coherent discourse is an interactive process that requires speakers to
draw upon several different types of communicative knowledge that complement more code …

This study examines and compares the production of discourse markers by native speakers
and learners of English based on a pedagogic sub-corpus from CANCODE, a corpus of …

Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many
other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to …

A clear and lively introduction to current trends in the theory, method and tools of discourse
studies, this book is a valuable guide for students and teachers of linguistics as well as for …

Degree: Dr. DegreeYear: 1996 Institute: Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (The Netherlands)
Publisher: Tilburg University Press, PO Box 90153, 5000 Le Tilburg, The Netherlands. This …