Sometimes during discourse, you may go off a point and try to return to it afterwards. When that happens, you only need discourse markers that exemplify your intention – examples include ‘as I ...

WELCOME to the last part of the series on discourse markers. This week, we will consider discourse markers – words that show the connection between what a speaker is saying and what has already been ...

Without discourse markers, which also include so and indeed, we’d have a tougher time understanding each other. These insubstantial-seeming words are vital to the job of communication.

This paper aims to re-assess the notion DISCOURSE MARKER as it is applied to a subset of so-called apposition markers. It is argued that the classification of markers of reformulation as discourse ...

The discourse marker here is while. And we also need a comma after the first clause. Smith claims that increasing taxes will help to reduce consumption of junk food.

Discourse markers are words or short phrases that don’t contribute directly—in a semantic sense—to the meaning of a sentence, but instead contribute pragmatic or attitudinal information.

Although pseudoquotation can be found either without discourse marker or with other discourse marker, hey is an appropriate marker for pseudoquotation, simultaneously to mark an important point in a ...

Guest column: The Founders, especially in the Declaration of Independence, set an example for civil discourse that we should follow today. Here's how.

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.