Offers a corpus-based contrastive study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. This book provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on discussion of interlingual equivalence. Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics. Num Pages: 376 pages, 175 black & white tables. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680. . 2005. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General . 6 (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415349494
ISBN 13: 9780415349499
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications.

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Dirk Siepmann is at the English Department at Siegen University. His research interests are contrastive linguistics, translation, corpus linguistics and language teaching.

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