Abstract

LOPES, Ana Cristina Macário. The discourse markers ‘quer dizer’, ‘ou seja’ and ‘isto é’ in european contemporary portuguese. Diacrítica [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.1, pp.33-50. ISSN 0807-8967.

This paper aims to describe the role of the discourse markers ‘quer dizer’, ‘ou seja’ and ‘isto é’ in European contemporary Portuguese. It is a corpus-based research: the data were collected from the oral and the written sub-corpora of the “Corpus de Referência do Português Contemporâneo” (Reference Corpus of contemporary Portuguese). The research attempts to answer the following questions: (i) are the three discourse markers interchangeable in all contexts? (ii) besides their reformulative function, are there other values that can be signaled by the three markers?

Keywords : discourse markers; reformulation; polyfunctionality.

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