discourse markers
1discourse marker — discourse ,marker noun count LINGUISTICS a word used in conversation, for showing a change in the way the conversation is developing or showing the other speaker how you are reacting to what they are saying. Typical discourse markers include well …
2Discourse marker — In linguistics, a discourse marker is a word or phrase that is relatively syntax independent and does not change the meaning of the sentence, and has a somewhat empty meaning.[1] Examples of discourse markers include the particles oh , well , now …
3discourse marker — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms discourse marker : singular discourse marker plural discourse markers linguistics 1) a word that is used for showing a change in the way the conversation is developing or for showing the other speaker how you… …
4discourse marker — noun a word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling …
5Discourse topic — A discourse topic, often referred to simply as “topic,” is defined as the central participant or idea of a stretch of connected discourse or dialogue roughly speaking, what the discourse is about. The notion is often confused with the related… …
6Like — In the English language, the word like has a very flexible range of uses. It can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection, and quotative. Word history As a preposition or adjective, it… …
7Robert T. Craig (scholar) — Robert T. Craig Robert T. Craig Full name Robert T. Craig Born May 10, 1947 Rochester, New York Era 20th 21st century Region Midw …
8Jingulu language — Jingulu Djingili Spoken in Australia Region Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory Native speakers 10 (2007) …
9Highland English — is the variety of Scottish English spoken by many in the Scottish Highlands, more heavily influenced by Gaelic than most other Scottish English dialects. Island English is the variety spoken as a second language by native Gaelic speakers in the… …
10Ethnopoetics — is a poetic movement and subfield in linguistics, and anthropology. It was coined as a term by Jerome Rothenberg in collaboration with George Quasha in 1968, when Quasha asked Rothenberg to create a term using ethnos and poetics on the model of… …
