While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into t

While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into t

This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functio

This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth

This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? Wha