Chapter 5
Portraying the category of discourse markers
Article outline
- 5.1
Distribution across languages and registers
- 5.1.1General frequency
- 5.1.2
The status of tag questions
- 5.1.3Register variation
- 5.1.4A greater effect of register over language?
- 5.1.5DM expressions in contrast
- 5.1.6Diversity hypothesis
- 5.2Position of DMs: Initiality in question
- 5.2.1Clause-initial DMs
- 5.2.2Utterance-initial DMs
- 5.2.3Turn-initial DMs
- 5.2.4Non-initial DMs
- 5.2.4.1
Typical patterns
- 5.2.4.2
Utterance-final DMs: Formal variation
- 5.2.4.3
Clause-medial DMs: Potential disfluency?
- 5.2.4.4The case of hedges
- 5.2.5Interim summary on position
- 5.3Domains and functions: Frequency and diversity
- 5.3.1
Single domains
- 5.3.1.1Domains across languages
- 5.3.1.2Domains across registers
- 5.3.1.3Domain-specific DMs
- 5.3.2Single functions
- 5.3.2.1Functions across languages
- 5.3.2.2Functions across registers
- 5.3.2.3Functional diversity
- 5.3.3Double domains and functions
- 5.4
Integrating syntax and pragmatics
- 5.5
Co-occurrence of DMs
- 5.5.1Co-occurrence across languages and registers
- 5.5.2Co-occurrence across positions
- 5.5.3Integrated statistical model of co-occurrence
- 5.6Summary
- 5.7Interim discussion: The potential of bottom-up research
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Notes