Multimodal Analysis of Discourse Markers 'donc', 'alors' and 'en fait' in Conversational French
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This paper, which is based on a multimodal corpus of conversational French, aims at describing some prosodic and gestural characteristics of the three discourse markers ‘donc’ (‘so’), ‘alors’ (‘so’ or ‘then’) and ‘en fait’ (‘in fact’). The pragmatic functions of ‘donc’ and ‘alors’ have been deeply analyzed in a few studies (Mosegaard-Hansen [9], Vlemings [12] and Zénone [13, 14]) but none of them described the phonetic characteristics of the markers. The present paper also proposes the association of ‘en fait’ with ‘donc’ and ‘alors’ since it is met in similar contexts in discourse.
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