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The Role of Discourse Markers in the Construction of Multivocality in Israeli Hebrew Talk in Interaction

Pages 1-38 | Published online: 14 Jun 2010
 

Abstract

This study investigates the use of discourse markers in the "layering of voices "(Bakhtin,1981)in Israeli Hebrew talk in interaction. Previous studies employed a definition of discourse markers having both a semantic and a structural component. The components of this definition coincided in 94%of the cases found in the database. The remaining 6%satisfied the semantic, but not the structural, component of the definition. The exceptions comprising these 6%are the subject of this study. A closer examination of these discourse markers shows that the majority of them are employed in 2 subcategories of multivocality: constructed dialogue and self-rephrasal.

Both introduce a voice "of second order "into the discourse -either a voice of another person in some narrated world or the self-correcting voice of the speaker.

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