Discourse topic organisation: signalling macro-topic boundaries
In discourse analysis, the notion of topic has proved to be an extremely useful tool as a central organising principle for discourse. The aim of this paper is to investigate structural markers used by English speakers in effecting a change of topic, and more specifically, an opening or closing of a...
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| Format: | book part |
| Publication Date: | 1999 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/61044 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/61044 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 81 811.111 Lingüística Filología inglesa 57 Lingüística 5505.10 Filología |
| Summary: | In discourse analysis, the notion of topic has proved to be an extremely useful tool as a central organising principle for discourse. The aim of this paper is to investigate structural markers used by English speakers in effecting a change of topic, and more specifically, an opening or closing of a macro topic. In our taxonomy of discourse topic organisation applying to English conversation, Markers are signals used to mark a boundary in the discourse topic, without an explicit reference to or inclusion of the topic. They include words and phrases largely devoid of referential content like well, now, I see, yes, etc. which may occur in differente combinations or clusterings or with other segmentation devices such as pauses, endorsements and repetitions. |
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