Search Results - "discourse marker"

In this work we intend to analyse, mainly from a pragmatic approach, real examples obtained from the Corpus del español in order to determine with scientific value the features which characterize in context the discourse marker para empezar. Our intention is to identify if there is a frequent use o...

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This article addresses the issue of discourse markers as illuminated by the works of Russian scholars. The relevance of the study is justified by the necessity of theoretical understanding of existing scientific approaches to the examination of these linguistic units. A review of scholarly works fro...

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The study examines the function of the turn-initial Bosnian discourse marker PA in patients’ responses to doctors’ wh-questions during the history-taking phase. In addition to being one of the least researched discourse markers in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, PA has primarly been analyzed through...

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This article aims to describe the synchronic uses of the discourse marker construction [se pá] in the Brazilian modality of the Portuguese language. Based on Usage-Based Linguistics (Cunha; Bispo; Silva, 2013; Rosário, 2022), we analyzed 170 occurrences of the construction [se pá] used in real commu...

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Introduction Modality, as a language category that reflects the attitudes of language speakers toward the possibility or necessity of the proposition in an utterance, is encoded by either free or bound morphological elements. The work conducted so far on modality in the Persian language generally s...

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Introduction. The article deals with pragmatic syncretism and syncretic aspects  of hedges – words and phrases  used to mitigate claims, that is make them vaguer, more tentative  and more uncertain. Hedges are looked upon as a type of discourse markers which are focused on the writer-reader interact...

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In the article the author draws conclusions from the cognitive research of the mechanism of classification of discourse markers based on the cognitive-functional and functional-pragmatic criteria.

The Spanish discourse marker bueno has multiple functions ranging from the expression of (dis)agreement to topic management. The present paper sets out to explore what happens when bueno starts to be used in written monological contexts. We examine the use of bueno in spoken sociolinguistic intervie...

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Purpose. This paper examines the pragmatic functions of the discourse marker aywa in Jordanian Arabic (JA) and its role in facilitating social and conversational dynamics among Jordanian speakers. Methods. Data were gathered through observational analysis of authentic conversational exchanges in...

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In the article the author draws conclusions from the cognitive research of discourse markers and dwells on the peculiarities of their usage in different types of discourse and communicative situations, as well as their relation to the modal / factual properties of discourse.

The present paper examines and compares the role of cognitive discourse markers (DMs), such as <i>uhm</i>, <i>like</i>, or <i>I mean</i>, and a set of prosodic parameters as indicators of prosodic boundaries. Cognitive DMs traditionally are not studied as a separa...

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<p>This study addresses the triangulation of language, power, and gender since it aims at examining the ideational function of language realized through the interpersonal profile. The interpersonal profile is investigated through the family relations and the literary discourse markers. The ide...

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This paper analyzes 20th century colloquialization processes in Peninsular Spanish, in line with recent works addressing mass-media colloquialization. Previous studies suggest a change in sports-talk announcing towards a more informal model, which is supported by the incorporation of new linguistic...

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The article is devoted to the problem of persuasiveness and suggestiveness as well as ways of their manifestation.  The phenomenon of persuasiveness has become the center of attention for many scientists lately, especially since nowadays the ways of influence on public opinion have become more compl...

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The article contains the results of the research of applicability of the universal linguistic platform GATE for the development of the specialized module that may be used to perform search and analysis of discourse markers as language units with cognitive functions in discourse.

The article contains the results of statistical analysis of the representation of discourse markers, characterized by the prominent cognitive potential, in the language system, as well as their significance in different types of discourse. The research was conducted using the author’s methodology of...

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The article contains the results of the research of the cognitive potential of discourse markers from the point of view of presence or absence of semantic meaning and the study of their linguistic status. The research is characterized by the use of the author’s method of automated natural text analy...

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