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In:Discourse Markers and (Dis)fluency: Forms and functions across languages and registers
Ludivine Crible
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 286] 2018
► pp. 33–54

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Chapter 3
Definitions and corpus-based approaches to discourse markers

Published online: 1 March 2018

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.286.c3

Article outline

3.1From connectives to pragmatic markers: Defining the continuum
3.2Discourse markers in contrastive linguistics
3.3 Models of discourse marker functions
- 3.3.1Discourse relations in the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0
- 3.3.2The many scopes of DM functions
  - 3.3.2.1Long-distance relations
  - 3.3.2.2Co-occurrence of discourse markers
  - 3.3.2.3Utterance-final discourse markers
  - 3.3.2.4Speech-based models and present taxonomy
3.4“Fluent” vs. “disfluent” discourse markers
- 3.4.1DM features and (dis)fluency
- 3.4.2Previous corpus-based accounts of DMs and disfluency
  - 3.4.2.1 Exclusions based on DM polyfunctionality
  - 3.4.2.2Exclusions for methodological validity
  - 3.4.2.3Treatment of DMs and disfluencies as distinct categories
3.5Summary and hypotheses
Notes