An Analysis on Discourse Markers in First 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate

DOI

10.2991/ichssr-18.2018.85How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Discourse markers, Presidential debate, Pragmatics.

Abstract

As a common language phenomenon, discourse markers (DMs) have attracted attentions from numerous linguists since the 1980s. Although researches on DMs are rich and fruitful, relatively few of them study DMs in debates. This paper strives to make an analysis on the pragmatic effects of DMs in debates in the first 2016 U.S. presidential debate, revealing that additional markers such as and and emphatic markers such as very are frequently used and illustrating the functions of these DMs in debates.

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© 2018, 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  - Shu’e Wang
AU  - Yanqing Guo
PY  - 2018/05
DA  - 2018/05
TI  - An Analysis on Discourse Markers in First 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 457
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/ichssr-18.2018.85
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