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Publication details [#13707]

Lenk, Uta. 1995. Discourse Markers and Conversational Coherence. In Wårvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Risto Hiltunen, eds. Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. (Anglicana Turkuensia 15). University of Turku. pp. 341–352.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | discourse marker

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Annotation

In this paper the author looks at how discourse markers participate and function in the establishment of coherence in spoken discourse, by means of a comparative analysis of the functions of discourse markers -in particular 'anyway'- in spoken British and American English.