Chapter 3
Definitions and corpus-based approaches to discourse markers
Article outline
- 3.1From connectives to pragmatic markers: Defining the continuum
- 3.2Discourse markers in contrastive linguistics
- 3.3
Models of discourse marker functions
- 3.3.1Discourse relations in the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0
- 3.3.2The many scopes of DM functions
- 3.3.2.1Long-distance relations
- 3.3.2.2Co-occurrence of discourse markers
- 3.3.2.3Utterance-final discourse markers
- 3.3.2.4Speech-based models and present taxonomy
- 3.4“Fluent” vs. “disfluent” discourse markers
- 3.4.1DM features and (dis)fluency
- 3.4.2Previous corpus-based accounts of DMs and disfluency
- 3.4.2.1
Exclusions based on DM polyfunctionality
- 3.4.2.2Exclusions for methodological validity
- 3.4.2.3Treatment of DMs and disfluencies as distinct categories
- 3.5Summary and hypotheses
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Notes