Discourse Markers

A study in PRESEEA-Sevilla Corpus

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Keywords:

discourse markers, information structuring markers, linking words, spoken Spanish, PRESEEA-Sevilla corpus

Abstract

This research tackles a study of discourse markers based on a sample of spoken Spanish: the PRESEEA-Sevilla corpus. In relation to these discourse markers, known for being specialized in structuring the information within a speech, it has often been said that they adopt certain characteristics in a spontaneous, not subject to a previous preparation orality. In this regard, our purpose is to discover their frequency and their behaviour in a set of semi-directed surveys, also, in addition to that, ascertain the social influences that affect their use. The main results obtained indicate that: 1) discourse markers have a significant occurrence in our materials; 2) the continuity of the members in these series show an explicit marking, mainly with the variants ‘después’ and ‘luego’; and 3) gender, age and educational level of informants conditioned the distribution of these units.

Author Biography

Juana Santana Marrero, Universidad de Sevilla

Profesora Titular de Universidad. Departamento de Lengua Española, Lingüística y Teoría de la Literatura. Universidad de Sevilla.

Published

2024-04-10

How to Cite

Santana Marrero, J. (2024). Discourse Markers: A study in PRESEEA-Sevilla Corpus. Revista Signos. Estudios De Lingüística, 57(114). Retrieved from https://revistasignos.cl/index.php/signos/article/view/675

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