heterogeneous classes that can signal coherence relations we call discourse markers For example, :the CONCESSION relation in English can be signalled with
They do not belong to any category that constructs any sentences sentence and they can be easily omitted (ibid 23) Urgelles-coll (2010: 24) provides an
Fraser (1996) uses constructed examples for analyzing DMs within a grammatical-pragmatic framework A discourse marker is defined by Fraser (1996,
discourse markers between sentences – mainly covery10 uses 174k examples for each of the 10 most frequent markers,4 thus totalling as many in-
a) "actual words spoken", and b) "surface structure of the original sentence" (p 795) For example (ibid, p 7951, the original utterance: (I 6) 1
15 août 2013 · reasons were found to underlie the lack of using discourse markers on mostly at the level of sentence and short guided paragraph instead
The scholar uses the definition, where discourse markers are defined as linguistic items, with no syntactic function at the sentence level, which serve,