Unpacking the function(s) of discourse markers in academic spoken English: a corpus-based study

Abstract Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Taking this into consideration, corpus-based research, we analyzed and unveiled quantitatively qualitatively of four discourse academic spoken English. To purpose, markers, i.e., “I mean,” think,” “you see,” know,” were selected for study. The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus was used as data gathering source. detect concordance lines carefully read analyzed. quantitative analysis demonstrated that from among know” see” most least frequent ones corpus, respectively. In line with analysis, qualitative there regard to each markers. findings study implications fields such studies, genre contrastive linguistics.