The Meta-pragmatic Functions of English Discourse Markers

DOI

10.2991/emcm-16.2017.248How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Meta-pragmatic awareness; Meta-pragmatic functions

Abstract

Discourse markers are only a small group of words in English, but the study of discourse markers has become an interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. This paper holds that discourse markers play a procedural role in the discourse, reveal the meta-pragmatic awareness of language users, and exert a series of meta-pragmatic functions. This paper extends a discussion and makes some conclusions to those meta-pragmatic functions.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xiuling Liu
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TI  - The Meta-pragmatic Functions of English Discourse Markers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Medicine (EMCM 2016)
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