In this article we argue that there are very good reasons for developing discourse grammars for L2 teaching and exemplify the criteria for moving from sentence-based grammar to the discourse level.

Pilar Alonso, Conceptual Integration as a Source of Discourse Coherence: A Theoretical Approach with Some Examples from William Boyd's "my Girl in Skin-Tight Jeans", Atlantis, Vol. 25, No. 2 ...

You know, like and let’s see are all examples of a special kind of discourse marker used in conversation and they are known as fillers. They are employed to give the speaker a second to think ...

Anita Fetzer is Professor of Applied English Linguistics at the University of Augsburg. Her research encompasses pragmatics, discourse analysis and discourse grammar. She has made contributions on ...

Such discourse markers will often be found at the beginning of a sentence. They are all fairly formal in tone and characteristic of formal or written discourse.