Abstract Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Taking this into consideration, corpus-based research, we analyzed and unveiled quantitatively qualitatively of four discourse academic spoken English. To purpose, markers, i.e., “I mean,” think,” “you see,” know,” were selected for study. The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus was ...

The role of using meta-discourse elements in writing, especially in research newspapers, is so important that their authors can convey certainty, doubt, and characteristics of the writers in their writings. There are different meta-discourse markers used by various authors in different branches; for example, hedges and boosters are the most important devices in writing. The meta-discourse eleme...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the similarities and differences in the usage of discourse markers such as because, so, and, etc. among the following three types of university students: native speakers of English (NS), non-native Chinese students (CNNS, mainland Chinese), and non-native Japanese students (JNNS). All the CNNS and JNNS have studied English as a foreign language for ...

This paper, which is based on a multimodal corpus of conversational French, aims at describing some prosodic and gestural characteristics of the three discourse markers ‘donc’ (‘so’), ‘alors’ (‘so’ or ‘then’) and ‘en fait’ (‘in fact’). The pragmatic functions of ‘donc’ and ‘alors’ have been deeply analyzed in a few studies (Mosegaard-Hansen [9], Vlemings [12] and Zénone [13, 14]) but none of th...

Ideology, power, and identity are truly reflected in people’s daily discourse including mark negotiation discourse of students. Peculiar power relations in Iranian academic settings and the unique features of politeness in Farsi extending up to Ta’arof motivated the researcher to statistically analyze a total of 50 mark negotiation discourse samples of Iranian university students from diverse d...

At present, discourse parsing is an important research topic. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is one of the most popular approaches in this field. In general, discourse parsing includes three stages: discourse segmentation, discourse relations detection and building up rhetorical trees. Different strategies are used when developing discourse parsers. One of the strategies to detect discourse ...

Discourse markers have been studied extensively in linguistics and communication studies. Its use is very helpful understanding the message conveyed, both formal informal situations. This study examines discourse used by non-native speakers Good Morning America Talk Show. Unveil types their functions, this uses a qualitative descriptive method identifying of markers. The data were taken from co...

This study investigates the use of discourse markers by Spanish learners of English. It is intended as an initial contribution to the study of how discourse markers are used by foreign language learners. We conduct two pilot studies involving the use of English discourse markers by native speakers of Spanish. We first study if these speakers use English discourse markers at all in their writing...