Pragmatic and discourse markers
Pragmatic Annotation of Discourse Markers in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus (Arabic- Spanish-English)
... on discourse markers as key elements in guiding the inferences of the statements in natural ...the discourse markers in a multilingual parallel corpus (Arabic-Spanish-English), this research ...
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Raising pragmatic awareness: Effect of contrastive discourse markers on iBT speaking module
... Although discourse markers lend themselves widely to spoken as well as written discourse, unfortunately there is not any common consensus on categorization, classification, status and other related ...
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An Investigation of Pragmatic Functions and Position of Prevalent Persian Discourse Markers Used in Casual Conversations among Tehrani Speakers
... ‘discourse markers’ (Schiffrin, 1987) or ‘pragmatic expressions’ (Fraser, 1999) have been of “substantial interest to researchers studying situated language use because of their role in demarcating ...
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The effect of explicit teaching of discourse markers on Iranian efl learners’ pragmatic fluency
... teaching discourse markers on Iranian EFL learners’ pragmatic ...a pragmatic fluency pre-test which was composed of a general topic eliciting their opinions about the air pollution in Ahvaz, ...
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INVESTIGATING DISCOURSE MARKERS IN PEDAGOGICAL SETTINGS:
... a pragmatic analysis on one Chinese literature class and concluded that teachers’ DMs have five major textual functions: connect, transfer, generalize, explain and ...
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The frequencies and functions of discourse markers in the Iranian university EFL classroom discourse
... relating markers such as contrastive, elaborative, and inferential markers have gained the highest frequency counts in all four ...request markers with somehow low degrees of ...attitude, ...
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Understanding discourse markers in interpreter mediated police interviews
... Since the effectiveness of interrogation is affected by the extent to which interpreters and officers have an understanding of interpreters’ practice in this area, my research suggests the need for a more nuanced ...
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The effect of lecturers’ gender on the use of discourse markers
... studied discourse markers from a grammatical-pragmatic point of view and concluded by presenting what appear to be the major classes of DMs according to their ...
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A Lexicon of Discourse Markers for Portuguese – LDM PT
... Furthermore, we conducted a manual contrastive approach between English and Portuguese, based on the parallel Europarl corpus and on the list of English connectives of the PDTB (Mendes and Lejeune, 2016). We located DMs ...
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Discourse markers in Saudi English and British English : a comparative investigation of the use of English discourse markers
... discourse markers include cue phrases (Knott & Dale, 1994), cue words (Horn et al, 2001), discourse connectives (Blakemore, 1987; Blakemore, 1992), discourse operators (Redeker, 1990; ...
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Understanding discourse markers in interpreter mediated police interviews
... term discourse marker does not refer to a single semantic ...in discourse, whether these be connections between discourse segments, connections between the propositions expressed by discourse ...
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The Interface between Intonation and Function of Discourse Markers in English
... of discourse, a smooth turn-taking system, as well as the expression of speakers’ attitude to the ...on discourse and conversation analysis these lexical items are often referred to by different names, ...
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Discourse markers in EFL classrooms : A corpus-driven research
... and discourse analysis have gained paramount significance in the field of English Language Teaching ...(ELT). Discourse and pragmatic knowledge are interrelated concepts as discourse deals ...
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Uniform Surprisal at the Level of Discourse Relations: Negation Markers and Discourse Connective Omission
... of discourse relation pro- cessing within a novel visual world experiment, which specifically shows that people predict the relation between two sentences as soon as they encounter a cue, be it the ...
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Linguistic and Pragmatic Devices in King Abdullah’s Speech: A Political Discourse Analysis
... of discourse, and elucidating features of political ...and pragmatic devices which are utilised in the ...the discourse; to be precise, these are: the use of first person deixis, metaphor as a ...
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Effective Teaching in the Use of Pragmatic Markers for Chinese EFL Learners
... the pragmatic markers used by native speakers and allowing them to acquire the pragmatic use of pragmatic markers and thus developing their communicative ...the pragmatic use of ...
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Pragmatic Markers of Voices in Femi Osofisan's Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels
... Literary pragmatics (LP) is all about text production and interpretation. A key issue in literary pragmatics is voice. As earlier mentioned a means to project a writer’s worldview is the voice (Mey, 2001).The literal ...
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THE USE OF DISCOURSE MARKERS AS AN INTERACTIVE FEATURE IN SCIENCE LECTURE DISCOURSE IN L2 SETTING
... (1986), discourse markers can be categorized into two: macro and ...Macro markers mean higher-order markers signaling major transitions and emphasis in a ...macro markers are ...
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The Many Functions of Discourse Particles: A Computational Model of Pragmatic Interpretation
... that pragmatic meanings ba- sically operate in the same way: a limited number of discourse elements in a language serves to communicate a greater num- ber of pragmatic meanings in a predictable ...
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Analysis of Inserted Clauses in the Legal Discourse from the Pragmatic Perspective
... The aim of the given study is to examine the use of inserted clauses in the legal discourse and their unique role in this speech genre. The investigation of the topic is conducted in line with the principles of ...
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