Overview

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

Part One

Provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on discussion of interlingual equivalence.

Part Two

Examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications.