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Publication details [#14056]

Lenk, Uta. 1998. Discourse markers and global coherence in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (2) : 245–257.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | discourse marker | topic

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Analysis of British and American conversations reveals the presence of so-called global discourse markers. Two such items, HOWEVER and STILL, are described in their structuring functions.