A Neo-Humean Analysis of Turkish Discourse Markers “ama” and “fakat”

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Discourse markers are important elements that build up relations between events and speech acts as well as between words and sentences. Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the analysis of how various discourse markers function and how they contribute to discourse. However, studies on Turkish discourse markers “ama” and “fakat” are rare and how these discourse markers contributes to different relations in discourse is an issue open to investigation. Although there are a few number of studies focusing on the coherence relations of “ama and “fakat” according to various discourse relation classifications there is no previous research on the Neo-Humean analysis of these discourse markers. Moreover, the contribution of these markers to the discourse according to their position in the sentence is not analyzed previously. The aim of this study is to fill this gap by investigating how discourse markers “ama” and “fakat” contribute to coherence relations in different text genres when analyzed from a Neo-Humean perspective and to find out how discourse markers “ama” and “fakat” contribute to coherence relations when they are used in sentence initial, sentence middle and sentence final positions from a Neo-Humean perspective. The results of the study provide valuable insights into understanding what kind of coherence relations these markers contribute to in written discourse.

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Discourse markers , Coherence relations , Neo , Humean analysis , Text , based analysis of discourse markers

Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences