1 School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University, Beijing, China. 2 School of International Education and Exchange, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China. For this reason, a contrastive study ...

East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. Schiffrin (1987) [1] is the earliest scholar to conduct systematic research on discourse markers. She believes that “the sequential ...

Abstract: In discourse, the elementary text spans are semantically connected by coherence relations. Discourse markers linguistically realize the coherence relations in the surface form. On the other ...

Mind you is an example of an informal linking device used in spoken English to point out that what you are going to say as an afterthought contradicts what has already been said. Still can be used in ...