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Author Schiffrin, Deborah.

Title Discourse markers / Deborah Schiffrin
Edition First paperback edition
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Description x, 364 pages ; 24 cm
Series Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 5
Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 5
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- Intonation and transcription conventions -- 1. Background: what is discourse? -- 2. Prelude to analysis: definitions and data -- 3. Questions: why analyze discourse markers? -- 4. Oh: marker of information management -- 5. Well: marker of response -- 6. Discourse connectives: and, but, or -- 7. So and because: markers of cause and result -- 8. Temporal adverbs: now and then -- 9. Information and participation: y'know and I mean -- 10. Discourse markers: contextual coordinates of talk -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index
Analysis English language Discourse Analysis
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 342-355
Subject Discourse analysis.
Discourse markers.
Sociolinguistics.
LC no. 86018846
ISBN 0521303850
0521357187 (paperback)