This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. Based on extensive data from several languages, d

This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. These markers serve to indicate the organization

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number

Stancetaking is inherent in verbal communication, as it is connected with the expression of subjectivity and the construction of intersubjectivity in discourse.

Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry. Research on markers is central to comprehensive theories of the