Some discourse markers in spoken academic discourse

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Authors

POVOLNÁ Renata

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Ends and Means in Language: Communication and Textual Strategies in Mass Media, Commercial and Academic Discourse; Autorský záměr a jeho cesta k adresátovi: Komunikační a textové strategie v masmediálním, komerčním a akademickém diskurzu
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Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords spoken academic discourse; discourse markers; communicative strategy; pragmatic function
Description Spoken academic discourse understood as an interaction between speakers in an academic environment can be characterized, similarly to other genres of spoken English, by a frequent use of what are mostly called discourse markers (DMs), such as well and now. The present paper, while investigating their distribution and pragmatic functions in two different corpora of spoken English, LLC and MICASE, attempts to contribute to the study of discourse markers by drawing attention to some current trends in their use as reflected in the structure of spoken discourse.
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