This article makes the first empirical corpus-based study of the actual performance of the
discourse marker (DM) nǐ zhīdào (NZ) in Chinese media interview conversations from the …

This study briefly describes the prosodic and pragmatic characteristics of the discourse
marker ni zhidao (“you know”) in spoken Chinese. It mainly explores the interaction between …

Most theoretical and empirical studies of discourse marker multifunctionality do not
approach it using a formal, systematic annotation model. Drawing on a domain-function …

Rhee, Seongha. 2020. On determinants of discourse marker functions: Grammaticalization
and discourse-analytic perspectives. Linguistic Research 37 (2), 289-325. Recent research …

This study investigates Mandarin discourse markers from both functional and prosodic
perspectives. Discourse markers are defined as sequentially dependent elements which …

The impetus for this special issue was an all-day event at the 2015 meeting of the
International Pragmatics Association: The Panel on Prosodic Constructions in Dialog. This …

This paper investigates the prosodic characteristics of French and English discourse
markers according to their pragmatic meaning in context. The study focusses on three …

This thesis explores the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the speech of Chinese non-
native speakers (NNSs) of English and native speakers (NSs), using corpus methodologies …

While discourse marker (DM) sequences are rather frequent, not any DM can co-occur with
any other, or in any order. In this study, we aim at uncovering which linguistic features …

Discourse markers are critical for maintaining discourse coherence. This study investigated
the regional and gender variations of discourse markers zhege and nage in spoken …