Marking Discourse Coherence: Functions of Discourse Markers in Spoken English |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
American English | 7 |
Coherence in Conversation | 13 |
Discourse Markers | 37 |
Anyway and Anyhow | 53 |
However | 101 |
Still | 122 |
Incidentally | 139 |
Actually | 155 |
What Else | 189 |
A Summary | 203 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aand Aknow ALINA American data American English analyzed anyhow Ashow aspect Athat Athis Awell Awhat Ayeah Ayes Ayou British British English Bublitz closes COBUILD coherence relations Collins-COBUILD Dictionary context contrast contribution corpus CSAE definition digression discourse marker function discourse particles discourse segments discourse structuring function expresses fact following example function of actually function of anyway global coherence going hearer hearer's understanding incidentally indicate instances interaction interpretation intonation unit JAMIE kind Lambada language laughs LENORE lexical items linguistic main topic MARILYN marked mentioned modal particles narration occur opinion marker orientation Ostman participants personal opinion PETE pragmatic meaning pragmatic particles prior topic propositional functions propositional meaning prosodic Quirk relevance Relevance Theory Schiffrin signals speaker A's spoken discourse stretch of discourse sylls talking things tone unit topic change topic shift topical actions transcription upcoming utterance yeah
Bibliographic information
| Title | Marking Discourse Coherence: Functions of Discourse Markers in Spoken English Volume 15 of Language in performance, ISSN 0939-9399 |
| Author | Uta Lenk |
| Publisher | Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998 |
| ISBN | 3823349384, 9783823349389 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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