Contrastive Discourse Markers in English

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Discourse Markers 1
6. Rotsè lishmoa kéta? ‘Wanna hear something weird/funny?’ [lit. ‘a segment’] 13
7. A Unified Account of Hebrew bekicur ‘in short’ 61
8. The Use of Finnish nyt as a Discourse Particle 83
9. Procedural Meaning and Parenthetical Discourse Markers 97
10. From Sentence to Discourse 127
11. The Pragmatic Marker like from a Relevance-theoretic Perspective 147
12. And people just you know like ‘wow’ 171
13. Hebrew kaze as Discourse Marker and Lexical Hedge 203
14. Discourse Markers and Form-function Correlations 223
15. Pejorative Connotation 261
16. A Discourse Analysis of Contrastive Connectives in English, Korean, and Japanese Conversation 277
17. Contrastive Discourse Markers in English 301
18. Pragmatic Functions of the English Discourse Marker anyway and its Corresponding Contrastive Japanese Discourse Markers 327
19. Index 353