Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English DiscourseWhile discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse marker literature and to studies in the pragmatics of learner language. It presents a thorough analysis on the basis of a substantial parallel corpus of spoken language. In this corpus, American students who are native speakers of English and German non-native speakers of English retell and discuss a silent movie. Each of the main chapters of the book is dedicated to one discourse marker, giving a detailed analysis of the functions this discourse marker fulfills in the corpus and a quantitative comparison between the two speaker groups. The book also develops a two-level model of discourse marker functions comprising a textual and an interactional level. |
Contents
197 | 5 |
CHAPTER 3 | 97 |
CHAPTER 4 | 147 |
CHAPTER 5 | 197 |
CHAPTER 6 | 241 |
Notes | 253 |
APPENDIX 1 | 271 |
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A. S. Hornby American English American speakers Andersen approximate numbers BE+like Chaplin Charlie Charlie Chaplin Cobuild coin contrast corpora corpus Dailey-O'Cain described discourse marker functions Discourse Particles discussion Distribution extract factors female Figure focuser frequency friends function group gender Germans Americans GLBCC hearer indicates individual functions informal contexts instances inter-title interactional level interlanguage intonation unit introducing an example introducing an explanation Jucker and Smith learners lexical focus linguistic item male marking meaning Median test movie narrative native and non-native native speaker contact non-discourse marker non-native speakers occurs opinion Östman partner pragmatic markers question quotation quotative Redeker refers relevant restaurant result s/he Schiffrin Schourup second language Second Language Acquisition Section silent movie speakers in role speakers of English statistically significant Svartvik syntactic textual level tion total words usage utterance waiter words per group yeah