Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. 'so', 'well', 'you know', 'I mean') and other so-called "disfluent" phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and …
Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. 'so', 'well', 'you know', 'I mean') and other so-called "disfluent" phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and …
"Context Construction as Mediated by Discourse Markers views language as a product ofevolution and as a biological entity, and explores the context construction function ofdiscourse markers (DMs) from an adaptive perspective. Over the last 30 years, Nyan hasconducted extensive r…
Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed 'hedges', 'fumbles' and 'conversational greasers' in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning, function and role of 'well', …
"Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed 'hedges', 'fumbles' and 'conversational greasers' in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning, function and role of 'well',…
"Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed 'hedges', 'fumbles' and 'conversational greasers' in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning, function and role of 'well',…
This book offers a corpus-based contrastive study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions.
