Types of discourse markers in the oral and written Galician

Abstract

The first section of the paper contains a brief introduction to discourse markers, beginning with a definition of the term, and it offers a short summary of the current state of research in relation to discourse markers in Galician, and touches on the problem of interference from Spanish; it also identifies the different types of discourse marker. The remaining sections focus on the five categories of discourse marker outlined in the introduction (organisational markers, connectives, reformulation markers, discourse operators and interactional markers together with the main functions and characteristics of each, using examples from a corpus of written and oral texts.

Keywords

• discourse markers
• oral Galician
• written Galician
• organisational markers
• connectives
• reformulation markers
• discourse operators
• nteractional markers