Abstract
This chapter reviews three influential perspectives in research on discourse markers: Schiffrin's discourse perspective, Fraser's pragmatic approach, and Maschler's functional interactional linguistics perspective. These three approaches are compared with respect to the ways they account for the sources of discourse markers, metalanguage, prosody, the boundary between discourse markers and conjunctions, the relationship between discourse markers and contextual realms, and the integration of discourse-marker analysis into the study of language. This is followed by a review of a considerable subset of recent studies dealing with discourse markers as they are employed across different contexts, across languages (including code-switching at discourse markers in bilingual discourse), and over time (including both diachronic and synchronic studies of grammaticization processes undergone by discourse markers). The chapter concludes with a consideration of what different approaches to the study of discourse markers teach us about conceptions of discourse and grammar
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Handbook of Discourse Analysis |
| Editors | Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton, Deborah Schiffrin |
| Place of Publication | Chichester, UK |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
| Chapter | 9 |
| Pages | 189 - 221 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Edition | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118584194 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470670743 |
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| State | Published - 9 Oct 2015 |