{"title":"The Use of Discourse Markers in Jordanian Spoken Arabic","authors":"E. Ali","doi":"10.5296/ijl.v15i2.20805","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This corpus-driven study analyzes the use of discourse markers in conversations between 14 native speakers of Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA). The data are collected from one Jordanian talk show, namely Caravan. This show is chosen because it is based on live conversations between a group of males and females in their twenties and thirties. The study aims at identifying the discourse markers that are used in the targeted conversations and examining the pragmatic functions that are performed by each discourse marker. The results revealed the subjects relied heavily on various multifunctional discourse markers to fulfill a wide range of pragmatic functions on the textual, interpersonal and cognitive levels of discourse.","PeriodicalId":46577,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of American Linguistics","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of American Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v15i2.20805","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This corpus-driven study analyzes the use of discourse markers in conversations between 14 native speakers of Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA). The data are collected from one Jordanian talk show, namely Caravan. This show is chosen because it is based on live conversations between a group of males and females in their twenties and thirties. The study aims at identifying the discourse markers that are used in the targeted conversations and examining the pragmatic functions that are performed by each discourse marker. The results revealed the subjects relied heavily on various multifunctional discourse markers to fulfill a wide range of pragmatic functions on the textual, interpersonal and cognitive levels of discourse.
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International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central, and South America. Inaugurated by Franz Boas in 1917, IJAL concentrates on the investigation of linguistic data and on the presentation of grammatical fragments and other documents relevant to Amerindian languages.