IN addition to the discourse markers discussed last week, there are several more to be pointed out this week. As earlier highlighted, discourse markers are words and expressions used to show how ...

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 ...

Russian Language Journal / Русский язык, Vol. 72, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Collaboration Beyond the Classroom: Undergraduate Research in Russian Language ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Hispanic Journal is devoted to the research and criticism in the areas of Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque and Portuguese ...

No doubt that most of you who read my English-usage columns and Forum website are now thoroughly familiar with the English content words and function words, which have been among the most recurrent ...

New research suggests that people who use filler speech and discourse markers are more thoughtful than those that don't. Like, y'know? There are plenty of habits that we know we have that annoy other ...

The goal of my video project for the course Language in US Society, embedded above, was to emphasize how the meaning of words -especially slang - have adapted beyond having only one meaning through ...