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1、语言学作业According to Deborah Schiffrin, “the analysis of discourse markers 语段标记 is part of the more general analysis of discourse coherence” (1987: 49). Looking at the use of discourse markers (in bold) in the following extract from conversation, do you think that they help to make this discourse more
2、coherent? If any of them were omitted, would it become less coherent? Given these examples, how would you define discourse markers? Do you think the word like (used twice here) should be treated as a discourse marker?I believe in that. Whatevers gonna happen is gonna happen. I believe that yknow its
3、 fate. It really is. Because eh my husband has a brother, that was killed in an automobile accident, and at the same time there was another fellow, in there, that walked away with not even a scratch on him. And I really fee- I dont feel ycan push fate, and I think a lot of people do. But I feel that
4、 you were put here for so many, years or whatever the case is, and thats how it was meant to be. Because like when we got married, we were supposed tget married uh like about five months later. My husband got a notice tgo into the service and we moved it up. And my father died the week after we got married. While we were on our honeymoon. And I just felt, that move was meant to be, because if not, he wouldnt have been there. So eh yknow it just s- seems that thats how things