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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Discourse markers"”.
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The pragmatics of selected discourse markers in Swahili
The dissertation is a description of several discourse markers in Swahili in a pragmatic framework which assumes that speakers and hearers are rational agents whose behavior, including verbal behavior, is plan-based and goal-oriented. In this view, speech is coherent because the hearer can perceive …
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Six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic: A syntactic and pragmatic analysis
… study is a description and analysis of six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic. In it I will attempt to determine the syntactic and pragmatic roles of each marker, describing its function in discourse. The final analysis will be based on the pragmatic model of relevance theory.</p> <p>I …
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Discourse Markers of clarification and causality in Maghrebi and Egyptian dialects: a socio-pragmatic perspective
Discourse Markers (DMs) have traditionally been viewed as elements which do not contribute to the truth-conditional meaning of an utterance or to its syntactic and semantic make-up. Contrary to those linguists who found the study of DMs marginal, other researchers have been interested in the study …
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DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN KOREAN AND ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL CHILDREN AND IN KOREAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
The present study explores the use of discourse markers (DMs) in talk-in-interaction of Korean-English bilingual children and their monolingual peers in two languages. The corpus-driven analysis proposes a core meaning of the two DMs as signaling contextual divergence in two monolingual groups. …
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"Ye ken fine wha I mean": Variation between you know and ye ken in Scottish varieties of English
The discourse marker you know is one of the most frequently studied discourse markers, and bears the hallmarks of a typical discourse marker with its complexity and indeterminacy of function (e.g. Holmes 1986, Erman 1987, Fox Tree & Schrock 2002, Irwin 2006). Much less work has been conducted into …
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Discourse‐pragmatic features of spoken French: analysis and pedagogical implications
My research focuses on selected discourse features of spoken French, especially those typical of present-day youth language. The dissertation has two parts: 1) Analysis of features typical of spoken language, based on a corpus of recorded data from young people aged 20 to 30, speaking to each other …
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Narrative discourse in English speaking coloured persons with aphasia and normal controls in the Western Cape, South Africa
This study aimed to characterise the discourse performance of English speaking Coloured persons with mild to moderate aphasia and match controls. It ascertained whether various narrative discourse tasks resulted in differences in discourse performance between the two groups in the amount of …
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The language of suicide notes
… intensifiers, maximum quantity terms, and discourse markers.
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Ke in utterances: uses and functions of the Xhosa discourse marker ke
Discourse Markers (DM) have been identified in so many languages, utterance contexts, and studied from so many angles and theoretical approaches (Ogoanah, 2011;; Jantjies, 2009;; Jabeen, et. al, 2011;; Dér and Markó, 2010;; Verdonik et.al, 2007;; Li, 2010;; Hernández, 2011;; Camiciottoli, 2009), so …
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A Functional Description of the Discourse Marker δε in 1 Corinthians
… of the present study. It lists researches on the discourse analysis and the traditional historical-comparative approach; the discourse markers in the Greek NT; and the letter of 1 Corinthians with respect to the discourse analysis and the DM δέ, to date. The second chapter surveys the scholars’ …
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In search of principles for Chinese subtitling : the application of Lu Xun's 'hard translation' in modern media
… solutions to particular subjects, namely: discourse markers, swearing and humour. This is to highlight the contrast between Chinese subtitlers' compliance with the traditional tendency to domesticate in Chinese translation and Chinese subtitling researchers' reliance on major Western …
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In search of principles for Chinese subtitling : the application of Lu Xun's 'hard translation' in modern media
… solutions to particular subjects, namely: discourse markers, swearing and humour. This is to highlight the contrast between Chinese subtitlers' compliance with the traditional tendency to domesticate in Chinese translation and Chinese subtitling researchers' reliance on major Western …
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Contact phenomena in the Serbian community in New Zealand: The language of the first-generation bilinguals
… such as the borrowing of English-origin discourse markers, the loss of case markings in Serbian nouns, and failure to assign Serbian case markings to replicated English nouns. The study confirms that observed changes very much reflect creativity of individual participants, and that social …
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Language, gender, and identity construction: sociolinguistic dynamics in the borderlands
… variation through the use of different, specific discourse markers in both Spanish and English, English borrowings and code-switching, other lexical elements from popular Spanish, and specific patterns of intonation. These linguistic variants are utilized by young women as indexes of social …
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Voilà, an orientation shift marker in modern French discourse: a conversation analytic perspective
… study investigates the use and functions of the discourse marker voilà in French interaction. As my literature review will show (chapter 2), prior studies on voilà focused mainly on morphosyntactic aspects of voilà (e.g., Moignet, 1969; Morin, 1985, Hug, 1995). Despite being one of the most …
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A call to covenant love: Text grammar and literary structure in Deuteronomy 5-11
… for the study, clarifying the theory behind discourse analysis, arguing that Deuteronomy is prosaic behavioral address, and delimiting the boundaries for text investigation. Chapter 3 describes the database and linguistic framework that guides the rest of the study. It highlights how various …
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The young school-age assessment of attachment (YSAA): Development and preliminary validation
… generated from this procedure were examined for discourse markers derived from the Dynamic Maturational model of analysing the Adult Attachment Interview (Crittenden, 1999-2004). Enough markers in five memory systems were generated for reliable classifications to be made. A preliminary validation …
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