In reality though, it's more often used as a discourse marker.

And people just you know like 'wow': Discourse markers as negotiating strategies.

The word like and the expression the old are often used as fillers or discourse markers.

Discourse markers are often the first constituents in sentences.

Can make use of appropriate discourse markers or connectors.

Fusion and the cognitive basis for bilingual discourse markers.

The process that leads from a free construction to a discourse marker can be traced back through grammaticalisation studies and resources.

Discourse markers such as oh, so or well, also signal the progression of ideas between sentences and help to create cohesion.

"The role of the development of discourse markers in a theory of grammaticalization."

Use: discourse markers, rhetorical questions, anecdotes (stories of something that has happened to you or a friend), humour and irony.

Work has focused mainly on comment clauses, discourse markers, final particles, and insubordination.

This semantic role is assigned the Discourse Marker v.

You may come across mistakes. 2.4 Discourse: This is a small, closed set of specific discourse markers.

The enclitic pronoun is always first followed by another pronoun or discourse marker.

Uses appropriate discourse markers and connectors spontaneously.

Data shows that discourse markers often come from different word classes, such as adverbs ("well") or prepositional phrases ("in fact").

Additionally, there is a Discourse Marker (S) which stands for the speaker of the discourse.

Ms. Fox Tree studies other discourse markers like you know, I mean and oh, and is working on so and and.

"Discourse Markers," in Historical Pragmatics.

The predicates which correspond to these primitives are represented by Discourse Markers (DMs).

It has become common especially among North American teenagers to use the word "like" in this way; see Valspeak, discourse marker, and speech disfluency:

As a versatile discourse marker (or back-channeling item), it can also be used with appropriate voice tone to show doubt or to seek confirmation ("OK?"

The second half will then examine how a computer corpus can reveal interesting patterns in the description of discourse markers such as 'mm', 'well', 'er' and 'OK'.

In this form of analysis, the language that the speaker uses, the pauses in speech, discourse markers, and other similar structural aspects of speech are the focus.

While discourse markers are particularly characteristic of informal and spoken registers of English, they are also used in written and formal registers.