Academic discourse markers: A contrastive analysis of the discourse marker then in English and Spanish lectures

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Begoña Bellés-Fortuño

Abstract

This paper investigates certain features of spoken academic discourse and more concretely the lecture genre in English and Spanish. Some studies on lectures have analyzed linguistic features such as the use of interaction, pronouns or repetition (Crawford, 2004; Giménez, 2000; Morell 2000). The aim here is to analyze the use and function of the Discourse Marker (DM) then and its Spanish correspondent entonces. A contrastive analysis of two sub-corpora (twelve North-American English lectures and twelve Peninsular Spanish lectures) has shown that then and entonces are generally polysemous Discourse Markers (DMs) in academic lecture talk. The analysis shows first that the DM then in English lectures is not simply a member of a single category, which is also true of the Spanish marker entonces. Secondly, although then and entonces are often assumed to be translation equivalents, the findings reveal that then and entonces cannot
function as simple counterparts in English and Spanish lectures.

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Lingüística

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Academic discourse markers: A contrastive analysis of the discourse marker then in English and Spanish lectures. (2016). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 2(1), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2016.4162

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