The present study is concerned with the issue of discourse markers as text forming devices in the English discourse.
We base our research on the following hypotheses:
- discourse markers are indispensable in all registers
- though some discourse markers can be met across several registers and their functions may overlap, the register itself determines the choice of discourse marker
On the basis of the existing and available researches on discourse markers we aim to define the functions discourse markers play in a coherent text. On the basis of quantitative and qualitative approaches to the obtained data we aim to reveal distribution of discourse markers in certain registers.
The research is based on the analysis of the texts of four different registers: drama, which is considered to be closest to spoken discourse, academic prose, legal documents and newspaper articles. The scope of the research material is fifty pages of each text.
The paper is divided into three parts:
•PART 1 examines some basic notions in text linguistics. It provides an overview of the concepts of discourse, cohesion, textuality, cohesive devices and the notion of register and its components.
•PART 2 of the paper gives a closer outlook of discourse markers. It presents points of view of such linguists as Halliday and Hasan (1992), Schiffrin (1987), Blakemore (1987), Fraser (1996), Trujillo Saez (2003) on the definition and delimitation of these particles. Also, the discussion of the functions of these... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050531_124913-12723 |
| Date | 31 May 2005 |
| Creators | Šiniajeva, Irina |
| Contributors | Selmistraitis, Linas, Buitkienė, Janina, Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050531_124913-12723 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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