IN addition to the discourse markers discussed last week, there are several more to be pointed out this week. As earlier highlighted, discourse markers are words and expressions used to show how ...

East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. Schiffrin (1987) [1] is the earliest scholar to conduct systematic research on discourse markers. She believes that “the sequential ...

Um, don’t you get, you know, annoyed by verbal clutter? Nothing sinks a public speaker quicker than an overdose of ums and uhs. Professional yakkers are expected to purge their speech of such lexical ...

Abstract: A modern interdisciplinary analysis of social networks implies detecting and investigating relevant socio-psychological linguistic markers that carry insight on the nature and ...

Discourse relations—both explicit, as marked by connectives and cue phrases, and implicit through juxtaposed text segments—are integral to the coherent interpretation and processing of language. These ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study uses conversation analysis to investigate how participants in Korean conversations negotiate their epistemic rights to information ...