Publication detail

Now as a Discourse Marker in Spoken English

ZMRZLÁ, P.

Original Title

Now as a Discourse Marker in Spoken English

Type

book

Language

English

Original Abstract

Now is a very frequent word in English. Anyone with at least some command of English will tell you what it "means". But really? This book wants to illustrate that there is more to the meaning than just dictionary entries. Discourse markers (DMs) have recently become a very popular topic in pragmatics. However, now has been only rarely mentioned. Even though it cannot compete with some other DMs in frequency, its functions in discourse by far surpass the role of a temporal adverb.

Keywords

now; discourse markers; spoken English; formal language

Authors

ZMRZLÁ, P.

Released

17. 6. 2013

Publisher

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

Location

Saarbrücken

ISBN

978-3659413971

Book

Now as a Discourse Marker in Spoken English

Pages count

60

URL

http://www.amazon.com/Now-Discourse-Marker-Spoken-English/dp/3659413976

BibTex

@book{BUT111381,
  author="Petra {Zmrzlá}",
  title="Now as a Discourse Marker in Spoken English",
  year="2013",
  publisher="LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing",
  address="Saarbrücken",
  pages="60",
  isbn="978-3659413971",
  url="http://www.amazon.com/Now-Discourse-Marker-Spoken-English/dp/3659413976"
}