RT Generic
T1 Approaching discourse markers in present-day english. A corpus-based study
A1 Varela Villaverde, David
K1 Linguistic corpus
K1 Corpus linguísticos
K1 British National Corpus
K1 Corpus of Contemporary American English
K1 Sociolinguistics
K1 Sociolinguística
K1 English language
K1 Lengua inglesa
K1 Lingua inglesa
AB The main aim of this work is the study of discourse or pragmatic markers in present-day written and spoken English by means of a corpus-based methodology which will allow me to analyse data extracted from two main corpora.Thus, this work will be organised into two different parts: a theoretical and a further practical one. On the one hand, in the theoretical part, an overview of their main linguistic features shaped by definition, depiction and formal characteristics will be supplied. Attention will be paid  to syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of members of this category of lexical items. On the other hand, the practical part will be devoted to the analysis of a selection of discourse markers, those more characteristic of spokenness and those more characteristic of writtenness, by means of two central corpora: BNC (British National Corpus), and COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English). lt is to consider that relevant variation will be found in their frequency of appearance depending on whether they are used  in spoken or written language and also according to the variety of English in question, British  English versus American English. This dissertation will conclude with a number of reflections on the basis of data analysed which will hopefully make a contribution to this particular fíeld of study
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18161
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18161
LA eng
NO Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2017-2018
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026