DISCOURSE MARKERS DESCRIPTIONS AND THEORY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Discourse markers: Introduction -- References -- Rotsè lishmoa kéta? 'wanna hear something weird/funny[lit. 'a segment']?': The Discourse Markers Segmenting Israeli HebrewTalk-in-interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Segmenting discourse - moments of frame shift in interaction -- 3.1. Narration and elicitation -- 3.1.1. Narrational frame shifts -- 3.1.2. Elicitational frame shifts -- 4. Discourse markers -- 5. A qualitative perspective: The discourse markers in the interaction between Sharon and Yaniv -- 5.1. Narration -- 5.2. Elicitation -- 6. A quantitative perspective: discourse markers in narration and eiicitation -- 6.1. First-Level Boundaries -- 6.2. Discourse marker clusters and further research -- 7. Conclusion: Segmenting Israeli Hebrew talk-in-interaction -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Texts -- References -- A Unified Account of Hebrew bekicur 'in short': Relevance Theory and Discourse StructureConsiderations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A pre-theoretical description -- 3. Multi - functionality or unique discourse function: a re-evaluation -- 3.1. Re-assessment of the data -- 3.2. Procedural and conceptual properties -- 4. Relevance Theory and coherence - based approaches -- 4.1. Discourse markers and reformulation markers -- 4.2. Bekicur - Theoretical assessment -- 4.3. Coherence-relations based theories vs. Relevance Theory -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- The Use of Finnish nyt as a Discourse Particle -- 1. Lexicographic vs. conversational approaches -- 2. The particle nyt in naturalistic conversation -- 2.1. Analysing conversational data -- 2.2. Directive made relevant -- 2.3. Negative statements -- 2.4. Asking about what one knows.

2.5. Looking back and looking forward -- 3. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Key for the transcription and glossing symbols -- References -- Procedural Meaning and Parenthetical Discourse Markers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The parenthetical nature of certain discourse connectives -- 3. The semantics of parenthetical connectives -- 3.1. The conceptual account -- 3.2. The procedural account -- 3.3. Choosing between the two accounts -- 4. Broadening the picture -- 5. Concepts, procedures and comments -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- From Sentence to Discourse: Cos (because) in Teenage Talk -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From causal connective to discourse link -- 2.1. Cos/because as a causal connective -- 2.2. Cos (because) as a discourse link -- 3. Is cos a discourse marker? -- 4. A case of grammaticalization? -- 4.1. Pragmaticalization vs grammaticalization -- 4.2. Is cos a case of grammaticalization? -- 5. Cos (because) in COLT -- 5.1. A comparison -- 5.1.1. Differences in frequency -- 5.1.2. Differences in function -- 5.2. Cos (because) illustrated -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Pragmatic Marker like from a Relevance-theoretic Perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The issue: the pragmatic marker like -- 1.2. Previous accounts -- 1.3. The relevance-theoretic view of utterance interpretation -- 2. Analysis -- 2.1. The relevance-theoretic notion of loose talk -- 2.2. The pragmatic marker like and loose talk -- 2.2.1. Various uses of the marker -- 2.2.2. Content or form -- 2.3. Truth-conditionality -- 2.4. The conceptual/procedural distinction -- 2.5. The explicit/implicit distinction -- 3. Implications of the analysis -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- And people just you know like 'wow' Discourse Markers as Negotiating Strategies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Discourse markers.

4. Yeah as a reception marker -- 5. Like as a presentation marker -- 6. You know as a presentation marker -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- Appendix A -- References -- Hebrew kaze as a Discourse Marker and Lexical Hedge: Conceptual and Procedural Properties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hebrew kaze: A pretheoretical description -- 3. Conceptual and procedural properties: Theoretical examination -- 3.1. Conceptual properties -- 3.2. Procedural properties -- 4. Polyfunctionality and polysemy -- 5. A Gricean account -- 6. Relevance Theory -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Discourse Markers and Form-function Correlations -- 1. Introducing Hebrew harey -- 2. The cognitive status of the interpretations associated with accessibility markers -- 2.1. The cognitive status of harey interpretations -- 2.2. Alternative ways of marking accessible propositions -- 2.3. The cognitive status of ugly facts about harey particles, after all and the accessibility contradictory intonations -- 3. Form-function correlations -- Notes -- Sources -- References -- Pejorative Connotation: A Case of Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Association with the pejorative connotation -- 4. Relationship with hedging -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- Text References -- References -- A Discourse Analysis of Contrastive Connectives in English, Korean, and Japanese Conversation: With Special Reference to the Context of Dispreferred Responses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Target forms -- 2.1. Previous research -- 2.1.1. English but -- 2.1.2 Korean -- 2.1.3. Japanese -- 3. Data and methodology -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1. Turn-initial position -- 4.2. Turn-medial position -- 4.3. Turn-final position -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Transcription Conventions -- References.

Contrastive Discourse Markers in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic Patterning of Contrastive Discourse Markers -- 3. The Meanings of Contrastive Discourse Markers -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Pragmatic Functions of the English Discourse Marker anyway and its Corresponding Contrastive Japanese Discourse Markers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The properties of anyway -- 3. The classification of anyway in terms of its functions -- 3.1. Anyway used in informal written English -- 3.2. Anyway used in combinations: marking the end of a digression and the return to the previous topic -- 3.2.1. But anyway -- 3.2.2. So anyway -- 3.2.3. Well anyway -- 4. A theoretic account of anyway - relevance theory vs. coherence based accounts -- 5. Anyway as a clue (cue) word for Interpretation -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.