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Publication details [#51026]

Fraser, Bruce. 2009. Topic Orientation Markers. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (5) : 892–898.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | discourse marker | function | pragmatics | topic control

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article explores the four uses of topic orientation markers, a type of pragmatic markers, namely new topic introduction; continuation with or digression from the present topic; and return to a prior topic. It also examines how they combine with attention markers.