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discourse markers

discourse markers is the plural of discourse marker.

Meaning of discourse marker

Noun

discourse marker (plural discourse markers)

  1. A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling.

Questions about discourse markers

What is discourse markers the plural of?
Discourse markers is the plural of discourse marker.

Words near discourse markers in the dictionary

  1. discourse analyses
  2. discourse analysis
  3. discourse analyst
  4. discourse analysts
  5. discourse marker
  6. discourse markers
  7. discoursed
  8. discourseless
  9. discourser
  10. discoursers
  11. discourses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discourse markers (page history and authors); discourse marker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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