Title: Discourse Markers Across Languages
Series Title: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Published: 2005
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
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This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focusing on discussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications.
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (ENG)
French (FRN)
German, Standard (GER)