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Publication details [#31862]

Fraser, Bruce. 1990. An approach to discourse markers. Journal of Pragmatics 14 (3) : 383–398.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse marker | expression1 | message1 | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The present paper argues that discourse markers -expressions that indicate a sequential relationship between the current basic message and the previous discourse- should be considered as a well-defined pragmatic category within the grammar of a language.