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Publication details [#14316]

Norrick, Neal R. 2001. Discourse markers in oral narrative. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (6) : 849–878.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse marker | narrative | spoken language

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article argues that, in oral narratives, WELL and BUT function as discourse markers which depend on participant expectations about narrative structures and storytelling procedures.