Discourse markers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiffrin, Deborah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Series:Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 5
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Background: what is discourse?
  • 2. Prelude to analysis: definitions and data
  • 3. Questions: why analyze discourse markers?
  • 4. Oh: marker of information management
  • 5. Well: marker of response
  • 6. Discourse connectives: and, but, or
  • 7. So and because: markers of cause and result
  • 8. Temporal adverbs: now and then
  • 9. Information and participation: y'know and I mean
  • 10. Discourse markers: contextual coordinates of talk.