Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2019)

An Analysis on Discourse Markers in Lectures on Old English

Authors
Shu’e Wang, Mingyan Zeng
Corresponding Author
Shu’e Wang
Available Online November 2019.
DOI
10.2991/ichess-19.2019.74How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Discourse markers, teachers’ utterance, Relevance Theory.
Abstract

As a crucial part of teachers’ utterance, discourse markers play a vital role in the verbal communication between teachers and students in class. This paper collects the discourse markers from Lecture on Old English, a series of lectures delivered by Prof. Stuart D. Lee on Netease Online Open Courses. It is found that Prof. Lee frequently uses some discourse markers like “if”,“and”, “so”, “but” and so on to extend an idea, explain the cause, and make comparison so as to make his utterances more fluent and logical, which reduces the efforts that students need to make in understanding his utterances.

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© 2019, 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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2019
ISBN
10.2991/ichess-19.2019.74
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ichess-19.2019.74How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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