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Discourse Markers Used by Non-Native Speakers in Good Morning America Talk Show.
This study examines the discourse markers used by non-native speakers in Good Morning America Talk Show, which aimed to find out the types and functions of discourse markers. This is a descriptive gualitative research. The data were taken from conversations of non-native speakers using Biber et al (1999) theory to determine types and functions of discourse markers. The results of this study showed that there are ten types of discourse markers — interjection, greetings and farewells, linking adverbials, stance adverbials, vocatives, response elicitors, response forms, hesitators, various polite speech-act formula and expletives. Those markers have variations functioned as — marker of information management, marker of response, marker of connectives, marker of cause and effect, marker of temporal adverb and marker of information-participation.
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