Chapter One Introduction 1
1.1 Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis 1
1.2 Background of This Study 2
1.3 Discourse Markers 5
1.3.1 Terminology 5
1.3.2 What Is a"Discourse Marker" 9
1.3.3 Properties of Discourse Markers 11
1.3.4 Development of Discourse Markers 14
1.4 Objectives of This Book 16
1.5 Data and Methodology 17
1.5.1 The Corpus 17
1.5.2 The Design of the Study 21
1.5.3 Selection of the Target Items for Analysis 21
1.5.4 Methodology 22
1.6 Organization of the Book 23
Chapter Two Literature Review 24
2.1 A General Overview 24
2.2 A Pre-elucidation of Text-linguistic Perspective and Functional Perspective in DMs 26
2.3 Theoretical Contributions to DMs from Three Perspectives 29
2.3.1 Text-linguistic Perspective 29
2.3.2 Functional Perspective 35
2.3.3 Pragmatic Perspective 41
2.4 Summary 43
Chapter Three An Analytical Framework to Discourse Markers 45
3.1 Conversation Analysis 45
3.1.1 Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis 47
3.1.2 The Methodology of Conversation Analysis 49
3.1.3 Basic Notions in Conversation Analysis 53
3.2 Basic Assumptions 60
3.3 Functions of Discourse Markers 61
3.4 Basic Statistical Information about the Frequency of Occurrences of the Three DMs 62
3.5 Framework of Analysis 63
3.5.1 Conversational Structure Domain 67
3.5.2 Content Domain 70
3.5.3 Interpersonal Domain 74
Chapter Four Discourse Marker Well 76
4.1 Non-discourse Marker and Discourse Marker Use of Well 77
4.2 DM Well in the Literature 80
4.3 The Distribution of DM and Non-DM Well Over Different Contexts 82
4.4 Collocations 87
4.5 The Position of Well in Utterances 88
4.6 A Multi-level Analysis of Well 94
4.6.1 Conversational Structure Domain 95
4.6.2 Content Domain 112
4.6.3 Interpersonal Domain 126
4.7 Summary 133
Chapter Five Discourse Marker Oh 138
5.1 Oh in the Literature 139
5.2 The Distribution of Oh over Different Contexts 142
5.3 Collocations 145
5.4 The Position of Oh in Utterances 149
5.5 A Multi-level Analysis of Oh 156
5.5.1 Conversational Structure Domain 158
5.5.2 Content Domain 172
5.5.3 Interpersonal Domain 182
5.6 Summary 201
Chapter Six Discourse Marker You Know 206
6.1 Non-discourse Marker and Discourse Marker Use of You Know 207
6.2 You know in the literature 209
6.3 The Distribution of DM You Know over Different Contexts 212
6.4 Collocations 214
6.5 The Position of You Know in Utterances 215
6.6 A Multi-level Analysis of You Know 219
6.6.1 Conversational Structure Domain 220
6.6.2 Content Domain 232
6.6.3 Interpersonal Domain 239
6.7 Summary 243
Chapter Seven Conclusions 250
7.1 Main Findings 250
7.2 Implications 261
7.3 Suggestions for Further Research 262
Bibliography 265