Is “Back to my Point” a Pragmatic Marker? An Inquiry into the Historical Development of some Metatextual Discourse Management Markers in English

Discourse management markers (DMMs) that “signal a meta-comment on the structure of the discourse” (Fraser 2009) are widely attested in historical data. Most discourse management markers (e.g. <em>and</em>, <em>anyway</em>, <em>by the way</em>, <em>but</e...

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Main Author: Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2020-12-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/307