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DESCRIPTION:The study investigated the use of discourse markers in Canadi
 an English (CE)\, a so far under-researched variety of English. The firs
 t goal was to compile a comprehensive inventory of discourse markers in 
 CE\, categorized by part-of-speech. The second goal was a functional ana
 lysis of three of the most well-studied English discourse markers <i>lik
 e</i>\, <i>well</i>\, and <i>so</i> in CE\, which was then compared to p
 revious findings from other varieties of English. The material used for 
 the study comprised about two hours of transcriptions from three unscrip
 ted Toronto-based podcasts (<i>I Hate It But I Love It</i>\, <i>Talk Fro
 m Superheroes</i>\, and <i>The Villain Was Right</i>) featuring two spea
 kers each\, four women and two men. \nThe results showed that the larges
 t formal categories were adverbials and clauses\, both in number of toke
 ns and number of types. The data also showed an almost Zipfian frequency
  distribution of discourse markers\, the most common being <i>like</i> (
 616 tokens)\, <i>yeah</i> (244 tokens)\, <i>just</i> (192 tokens)\, <i>s
 o</i> (130 tokens) and <i>I think</i> (117 tokens). Regarding <i>like</i
 >\, <i>well</i>\, and <i>so</i>\, <i>like</i> showed the most interspeak
 er variance both in overall frequency of use and functions. <i>so</i> sh
 owed almost no interspeaker variance\, and <i>well</i> hardly occurred i
 n the data. \nThe comparison to similar studies of <i>like</i>\, <i>well
 </i>\, and <i>so</i> in British English (BE) and American English (AE) r
 evealed that <i>well</i> was used much less frequently in CE than in BE 
 but with the same frequency in AE. <i>so</i> only occurred half as often
  in CE as in BE and AE and <i>like</i> occurred about 1.5 times as often
  in CE as in BE and AE. Judging from these results\, it was concluded th
 at the use of discourse markers is dependent on the variety of English.
URL:https://68stuts.bildungs.cafe/events/423.html
SUMMARY:“So\, like\, at the beginning it was like\, what’s new\, Buenos A
 ires?”: Discourse markers in unscripted Canadian podcasts
ORGANIZER:stuts68
LOCATION:stuts68 - Ruqaiya Hasan
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