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The Rise of Discourse Markers

This pioneering study highlights the importance in linguistic communication of discourse markers, a previously neglected area of research.

Bernd Heine (Author), Gunther Kaltenböck (Author), Tania Kuteva (Author), Haiping Long (Author)

9781108987288, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 August 2023

320 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.468 kg

Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication, and research on this phenomenon has been a thriving field of study over the past three decades. However, a problem that has plagued this research is that these markers exhibit a number of structural characteristics that are hard to interpret based on existing methodologies, such as grammaticalization. This study argues that it is possible to explain such characteristics in a meaningful way. It presents a cross-linguistic survey of the development of discourse markers, their important role in communication, and their relation to the wider context of sociocultural behaviour, with the goal of explaining their similarities and differences across a typologically wide range of languages. By giving a clear definition of discourse markers, it aims to provide a guide for future research, making it essential reading for students and researchers in linguistics, and anyone interested in exploring this fascinating linguistic phenomenon.

1. The development of discourse markers: an introduction
2. Concepts of analysis
3. English discourse markers
4. French discourse markers
5. Japanese discourse markers
6. Korean discourse markers
7. Discourse markers in language contact
8. Discussion
9. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [CFG], Dialect, slang & jargon [CFFD], Linguistics [CF], Language: history & general works [CBX]

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