Pragmatic functions of lexical connectors in German spontaneous synergetic discourse

The German temporal connectors bevor and nachdem in discourse

Pragmatic Functions of Discourse Markers: A Review of Related Literature

Recently, studies on spoken language in real-life contexts increased dramatically. As a result, some of the features previously considered „empty‟, „superfluous‟ and redundantsuch as sort of, y‟know and well (Goddard and Meanpatterson, 2000, p. 98) now are considered as crucial aspects of interpersonal communication. These expressions called „discourse markers‟ (Schiffrin, 1987) or „pragmatic e...

Pragmatic Concepts in Discourse Analysis

The analysis of discourse is the study of language in communication. Such a study involves contextual considerations and so it necessarily belongs to that area of linguistics called pragmatics. Pragmatics is concerned with the threetermed relation which unites linguistic forms and the communicative functions; these forms are capable of serving with the contexts or settings in which given lingui...

Pragmatic Discourse Representation Theory

This paper presents a pragmatic approach to Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) in an attempt to address the pragmatic limitations of DRT (Werth 1999; Simons 2003). To achieve a more pragmatic DRT model, this paper extends standard DRT framework to incorporate more pragmatic elements such as representing agents’ cognitive states and the complex process through which agents recognize utterance...

investigation of (meta)discourse markers in elt coursebooks

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...