UBIRA ETheses - Discourse markers and code-switching.
Chapter 2, 1 examine discourse markers in general, and then suggest why they occur so frequently in constructed dia!ogue. Chapter 3 offers a more in-depth analysis of particular discourse markers used iri the constructed dialogue of my data. Finally, in Chapter 4, i conclude my discussion by summarizing and.
Contribution of discourse markers to alignment in conversation. Objectives: The aim of the PhD project is to find out whether the use of discourse markers (DMs) in spontaneous conversation is motivated by the speaker’s needs, or by (the prediction by the speaker of) the listener’s needs.DMs may indeed specialize in either listener-oriented or speaker-oriented functions, and the use of.
Vega, Madeline dela Cruz. (2005) An analysis of hinneh as a discourse marker in Genesis - 2 Kings. PhD thesis, University of Gloucestershire.
THE FUNCTION OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN ARABIC NEWSPAPER OPINION ARTICLES A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Arabic By Fatima A. Al Kohlani, M.A. Washington, DC April 15, 2010.
This thesis is a corpus-based study of two spoken academic corpora in an English as the (foreign) medium of instruction (EMI) context. The first corpus is compiled of transcripts of academic lectures by non-native speakers (NNS) from an EMI medical.
Hospitals and other health institutions around the world have begun to tie staff promotion and careers to publication; accordingly, an increasing number of medical journal articles are being written by non-native English speakers and novice writers. This work aims to analyse medical journal articles as a genre, and follows Swales’ (1990) framework for doing so, by interviewing a sample of.
Discourse markers are utterance-initial elements which bracket units of spoken talk. Although they have multiple uses in everyday conversation which become apparent only through an analysis of the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of surrounding discourse, markers are also linguistic elements with syntactic and semantic properties of their own.