Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many
other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to …

Conversations in English contain a lot of small words such as well, you know, I mean, sort of
which have been referred to as pragmatic markers. Although they have recently received a …

Cuando el hablante quiere construir un discurso en un tiempo y en un espacio
determinados ha de realizar un proceso de elaboración previa en el que los conceptos …

Annotation. Este estudio investiga la relación entre los marcadores del discurso y la cortesía
verbal, dos categorías de la pragmática muy estudiadas y, sin embargo, todavía de perfil …

This paper, part of a project on gender differences in simultaneous interpreting, analyzes
possible gender-related trends in the use of hedges by professional interpreters and …

Borrowed lexemes develo** into discourse markers (DMs) are uniquely valuable research
topics from contact linguistic and grammaticalization perspectives. Although a large number …

This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by
making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora …

This paper deals with the semantics of two discourse markers, viz. French en fait (“in fact”)
and Dutch eigenlijk (“actually”), commonly associated with the expression of “opposition” …

This paper deals with the typology of elements which, as I argue, are best described as
markers of uncontroversial information. In order to be able to speak of this class of functions …

This study aims to conduct a pragmalinguistic analysis of the use of interpersonal discourse
markers (DMs) to regulate politeness in a Spanish language digital forum. The study is …