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discourse marker
noun[ C ]
language specializeduk /ˈdɪs.kɔːs ˌmɑː.kər/ us /ˈdɪs.kɔːrs ˌmɑːr.kɚ/
a word or phrase that is used for organizing discourse(= spoken or written communication ), for example well, so, or in fact: 话语标记
Many speakers use "you know" as a discourse marker.很多人说话的时候用 "你知道 "，这就是一个话语标记。
His style is full of chatty discourse markers (for a start, touch wood, in any event, possibly).
Utterances such as venga ("come"), mira ("look") and oye ("listen") are typically used as discourse markers in Spanish.
Discourse markers such as "well", "you know", and "like" are not usually explicitly taught to language learners.
In her corpus-based research on the phrase "I think" in American English, she finds that it often serves strictly as a discourse marker, with no real semantic content.
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