The Sequencing of Contrastive Discourse Markers in English

This paper examines an understudied area of pragmatic research, namely, the sequencing of Discourse Markers (DMs). Looking only at the sequencing of Contrastive Discourse Markers (CDMs), thereby excluding both Elaborative and Inferential Discourse Markers, it is shown that only “but” may occur as t...

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Main Author: Bruce Fraser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Latvia Press 2011-11-01
Series:Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
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Online Access:https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/302