Discussion note A relevance reassessment of reformulation markers
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This discussion note deals with the reformulation markers (RMs) that is, that is to say, in other words, namely, i.e. and viz. and the role they play in linguistic communication as described by Sperber and Wilson (1986/1995). According to Blakemore (1996), items such as that is (to say) and in other words are conceptual and non-truth conditional. This fact makes her conclude that classifying them with discourse connectives like so and after all (procedural and non-truth conditional) under the category of discourse markers (as in, for example, Fraser, 1990, 1996) has no theoretical value. Blakemore (1996) bases her analysis on Wilson and Sperber’s (1993) account of linguistic meaning and on Ifantidou-Trouki’s (1993) explanation of parenthetical constituents. Blakemore (2002: 179–183) retakes part of her analysis of RMs to prove the same point: That there is no single category of discourse markers and that research on discourse markers as a class has no value. Blakemore (1996) distinguishes two types of use: Discourse sequence uses (1) and nominal apposition uses (2):
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