The Function of Discourse Markers in Electrical Engineering Discourse
The Function of Discourse Markers in Electrical Engineering Discourse

Summary/Abstract: Generally speaking, discourse markers have been studied in the linguistic literature under diverse labels, and research on these lexical items has been dominated by classification. By way of illustration, this paper examines the function of English discourse markers but, so, in fact, kind of and sort of in electrical engineering discourse. The scope, relevance-theoretic framework and corpus-based data are presented. Subsequently, the investigated discourse markers are subjected to the Schourup’s test and relevance-theoretic analysis. The last part lists the most relevant findings and discusses the applicability of the standard Schourup’s tests.

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