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The English discourse marker now has been characterized as a marker of “temporal relations between utterances in a discourse” (Schiffrin, 1987) and as a “coherence marker” (Aijmer, 1988). These and similar formulations are founded on the notion that discourse markers primarily serve functions related to local discourse coherence. In the present paper, drawing on relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson,...
This study aimed to provide a unified description of the lexeme hao, in which its polyfunctionality is accounted for in terms of an abstract basic meaning that interacts in various ways with the different levels of discourse in which hao can function. The corpus contained two sets of data: naturally occurring daily conversations (totaling 120′55″) and radio interviews and call-ins (120′32″ in total)...
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