"O marcador discursivo desde logo Como “operador de concretização e exemplificação” "

"Discourse Marker Desde Logo as a “Concretization and Exemplifica¬tion Operator”. This study analyses the use of discourse marker desde logo in Contemporary European Portuguese an example (EM), sharing semantic-discursive properties contexts with other items, such “por exemplo”, “concretamente”, “sobretudo”, “principalmente”, etc. Exemplification is very frequent important operation discourse, involving typically relationship between two main elements, exemplifying one general (“general element”, EM “exemplifying element”). Example markers are also frequently combined each strategies, reinforcing or specifying pragmatic meaning. On hand, there fuzzy borders exemplifica¬tion functions, like reformulation, information ordering some epistemic values. Based on analysis contemporary corpus, first results show that (i) can be used same typical EM, (ii) has more similarities “principalmente” “antes de mais nada” (iii) due to conflict discursive contextual constraints. Keywords: “desde logo”, markers, Portuguese, written "