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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To investigate discourse and interactive functions of quote formula + hey + pseudoquotation, that is, invented quotation, in current English ...

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.

We have seen that there are discourse markers for adding, contradicting, generalising, giving examples, dismissing of previous discourse, changing of subject, returning to previous subject ...