This study aimed to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in 168 comments made by 28 university students of engineering via an educational forum held as part of a general English course. The students wrote their comments on six topics, with a total of 19,671 words. Their comments during educational discussions were analyzed to determine their use of five metadiscourse categ...

Discourse markers is a word or phrase that useful in communication. This paper investigates the use of discourse research seminar. The objectives this study are to find out types and functions Markers used by participants researcher analyzed based on Brinton Theory Brinton’s Inventory Function Inventory. results contain two finding. First, there eleven DMs found Inventory, they well, okay, and,...

Discourse anaphora other than definite NPs have not received much attention in generation. This paper proposes a strategy for generating the additive particle also, a non-nominal discourse anaphor. The strategy is based on a treatment of additive particles as markers rather than presupposition triggers (following Zeevat (2003)) and two sorts of contextually given alternative sets.

This paper investigates the relation between the sound patterns of interjections and their functional realisation in the discourse process. It considers whether certain interjection functions tend to have particular sound distributions. In order to address these questions a classification scheme for American English nonlexical interjections in terms of discourse markers is also presented.

Historically, causal markers, syntactic structures and connectives have been the sole identifying features for automatically extracting causal relations in natural language discourse. However various connectives such as “and”, prepositions such as “as” and other syntactic structures are highly ambiguous in nature, and it is clear that one cannot solely rely on lexico-syntactic markers for detec...

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 th...

This descriptive research discusses the use of discourse markers in a diplomatic setting between governments Indonesia and Australia during Joint Press Conference Indonesia-Australia Foreign Defence Ministers. The particular aims this are to identify analyze forms employed by representatives each government describe most frequent used these representatives. data were collected from transcript M...

This paper reports on an experiment implementing a data-intensive approach to discourse organisation. Its focus is on enumerative structures envisaged as a type of textual pattern in a sequentiality-oriented approach to discourse. On the basis of a large-scale annotation exercise calling upon automatic feature mark-up alongside manual annotation, we explore a method to identify complex discours...