Through a discussion of the theories of discourse marker and relevance, this paper makes the claim that the modern Mandarin utterance-final particle ba should be recognized as a discourse marker as well as a modality particle.

This paper seeks to find a way of incorporating discourse markers in our dailyreading and writing instructions from a perspective of discourse.

As semantic cohesive ties, discourse markers are used to create coherence.

The present paper is a discussion on the definition, forms, positions of the discourse markers in English and the various logical concepts that they indictate.

The discourse markers play an important part in the discourse coherence, it has its potentiality and implication, and they can not only connect the relations between the sentences and the propositions but also grasp the pulse of discourse, distinguish the main details and identify facts and conclusions.

Through the discourse analysis of the English novel The Gadfly,this paper proposes five classifications of pragmatic function of the discourse marker "well" based on the previous studies.

After discussing the relation between the six functions of "nà me" and social variables of 19 guides,the author puts forward proposals for language planning of the discourse marker "nà me" in the tourism s language of the Forbidden City based on cognition pragmatics.

This study investigates the use of the discourse marker well in spoken English.

A Study of Foreign Students Errors on the Use of Some Textual Connectives and a Related Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis;

In topical model the marked words are "Zhu,Yuan,Zhuyuan,Zhufu" and etc.