The Topic of the journal
Summarize what you have learned about discourse markers. Tell us how much do you care discourse markers (consciously, unconsciously)when you read English texts?
My answer
Discourse markers show the relationship the writer intended between two parts of the text. Markers signal the sequence of events, discourse organization, and the writer’s point of view. Additive, adversative, casual, and disjuncts are kinds of markers. In addition, which is also a discourse marker, conjunctions are a subset of discourse markers.
Usually, I deal with these conjunctions unconsciously. I read the text and if I see a conjunction, I can predict what will come next. But, in sometimes, when the text is hard to understand, the conjunctions are a hint to comprehend the text. I can guess what the author really intended. I could see the flow of text by focusing on the discourse markers. Therefore, it sometimes becomes useful to appreciate the passage.
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