RT Book, Section
T1 Discourse topic organisation: signalling macro-topic boundaries
A1 Martínez Caro, Elena
A1 Downing Rothwell, Angela
AB 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.
PB Universidad de Sevilla, Secretariado de Publicaciones
SN 9788447204892
YR 1999
FD 1999
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/61044
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/61044
LA spa
DS Docta Complutense
RD 21 abr 2025