Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Discourse Markers: Introduction

Andreas H. Jucker

Yael Ziv

Rotse lishmoa keta? `Wanna hear something weird/funny?' [lit. `a segment']: Segmenting Israeli Hebrew Talk-in-interaction

Yael Maschler

A Unified Account of Hebrew bekicur `in short': Relevance Theory and Discourse Structure Considerations

Shelley Shloush

The Use of Finnish nyt as a Discourse Particle

Auli Hokulinen

Procedural Meaning and Parenthetical Discourse Markers

Villy Rouchota

From Sentence to Discourse: Cos (because) in Teenage Talk

Anna-Brita Stenstorm

The Pragmatic Marker like from a Relevance-theoretic Perspective

Gisle Andersen

And people just you know like `wow': Discourse Markers as Negotiating Strategies

Andreas H. Jucker

Sara W. Smith

Hebrew kaze as Discourse Marker and Lexical Hedge: Conceptual and Procedural Properties

Yael Ziv

Discourse Markers and Form-function Correlations

Mira Ariel

Pejorative Connotation: A Case of Japanese

Satoko Suzuki

A Discourse Analysis of Contrastive Connectives in English, Korean, and Japanese Conversation: With Special Reference to the Context of Dispreferred Responses

Yong-Yae Park

Contrastive Discourse Markers in English

Bruce Fraser

Pragmatic Functions of the English Discourse Marker anyway and its Corresponding Contrastive Japanese Discourse Markers

Paul O. Takahara

Index