A Contrastive Study on the Utilization of Discourse Markers in the Discussion Section of English Research Articles

Cohesion is an important aspect of English texts, and to achieve that, writers utilize certain devices known as Discourse Markers (DMs). This study thus sought analyze the discussion section 12 research articles (RAs) published on two different journals (i.e., Language Teaching Research American Journal Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics) which cover contrastive disciplines humanities medicine) so find out most used category DMs. Additionally, aimed at identifying differences between these how DMs were utilized. The adopted qualitative methods. That is, analysis was based Halliday Hasan’s (1976) Fraser’s (2009) classification frameworks Results revealed that elaborative across all RAs. Furthermore, LTR corpus exhibited more varieties than AJMG in less used. Lastly, some suggestions are given for future have interest discourse general, particular.