Discourse markers are linguistic items that are frequently used in the course of daily communication. These are not only connecting words that contribute to cohesion of discourse but are also crucial ...

Abstract: The present paper studies the notions of turn management and topic orientation, and more specifically, a group of pragmatic elements, so-called discourse markers (DMs) which indicate the act ...

MOST conversations in speaking or writing contexts are usually prefaced with discourse markers. Why is this fitting, and why are discourse markers inevitable in communication? This article discusses ...

WELCOME to the last part of the series on discourse markers. This week, we will consider discourse markers – words that show the connection between what a speaker is saying and what has already been ...

Abstract: Automatic extraction of key sentences from lecture audio archives is addressed. The method makes use of the characteristic expressions used in initial utterances of sections, which are ...

Um, don’t you get, you know, annoyed by verbal clutter? Nothing sinks a public speaker quicker than an overdose of ums and uhs. Professional yakkers are expected to purge their speech of such lexical ...