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Macro Discourse Markers in TED Talks: How Ideas are Signaled to Listeners |
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| Creator | 1. Uicheng, Kanokrat 2. Crabtree, Michael |
| Title | Macro Discourse Markers in TED Talks: How Ideas are Signaled to Listeners |
| Publisher | สถาบันภาษา จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย |
| Publication Year | 2561 |
| Journal Title | PASAA : a journal of language teaching and learning |
| Journal Vol. | 55 |
| Page no. | 31-Jan |
| Keyword | discourse marker, macro discourse marker, idea signalers corpus-based study, public talk, talkgenres |
| URL Website | http://www.culi.chula.ac.th/Publicationsonline |
| Website title | Chulalongkorn University Language Institute |
| ISSN | 2287-0024 |
| Abstract | This study investigated the macro discourse not subject to talk genres and that 51 markerscontaining the word 'idea' and 'ideas' were found.markers used by TED speakers to signal ideas tolisteners. 150 TED transcripts from six talk genres:technology, entertainment, design, business, science,and global issues were compiled to identify thefrequency and distribution of macro discoursemarkers. This investigation was conducted to confirmthe hypothesis that genres of talks did not affect thedistribution of discourse markers. The study alsohypothesized that a number of macro discoursemarkers which explicitly containing the word 'idea' or'ideas' in them could be found. The results confirmedthat the occurrences of macro discourse markers were |
