Aimed at equipping a new generation of scholars and students with the essential tools for analyzing discourse, this handbook provides an overview of key researc

Discourse markers - the particles oh, well, now, then, you know and I mean, and the connectives so, because, and, but and or - perform important functions in co

The volume will be of central interest to anyone concerned with communication in the fields of interethnic or industrial relations.

An exploration of how any language produced by man, spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose and within a context.

Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication, and research on this phenomenon has been a thriving field of study over the past thr