Discourse Markers Analysis Of Hugh Jackman Speech In The English Speech: Be Thankful

Ade Dwi Cahyanti

Authors

Ade Dwi Cahyanti English Language Education, Postgraduate Program, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Keywords:

Discourse markers, Elaborative Marker, Inferential marker, Contrastive marker, Speech

Abstract

Using discourse markers in the speaking area can help the speaker organise the spoken language to be more effective and easy to understand by the interlocutor. This research aims to investigate the discourse markers used by the speaker in English Speech. This research used a qualitative method to gain information on discourse markers in English vocabulary. Furthermore, data source was Hugh Jackman as the speaker of an English vocabulary. The research used Fraser’s theory (2009) as grounded theory to analyze discourse markers. As a result, the findings revealed all types of discourse markers occurred on the speaker’s utterances. The speaker used elaborative markers frequently than other markers. Then, he used an inferential marker as the second level of the dominant marker. Contrastive marker was the last discourse marker commonly used by the speaker in his speech.

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