As I announced in class, we will have a guest lecture from Prof. Bruce Fraser (SED) next Monday, 10/29.  Prof. Fraser will share with us his past and current research on discourse markers.  He has kindly passed along the following three articles, which should be read in advance of our next class meeting (they are all posted in the “Readings” section of our course website):

Fraser, Bruce. 1996. Pragmatic Markers.  MS, Boston University.

Fraser, Bruce. 2008. Topic Orientation Markers. Journal of Pragmatics 41: 892-898.

Fraser, Bruce. 2009. An Account of Discourse Markers. International Review of Pragmatics 1: 293-320.

A reading response assignment regarding these papers will be posted shortly.