THE USE OF THE DISCURSIVE MARKER I THINK IN THE RUSSIAN STUDENTS’ ESSAYS
Lipatova Natal'ya Alekseevna, Rudneva Mariya Andreevna, Ulanova Kapitolina Leonidovna
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Abstract. The research of the use of discursive markers in students’ spoken and written language is of great practical importance, since discursive markers are responsible for the coherence and logical structure of the text. The article deals with the specificity of using the discursive marker I think by the Russian students in comparison with the analogous indicators for the native English speakers. The paper identifies the main problems in the use of the discursive marker I think , suggests the ways to overcome them.
Key words and phrases: корпусная лингвистика, прагматика, дискурс, дискурсивные маркеры, академическое письмо, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, discourse, discursive markers, academic writing
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