Open AccessHow Gender Affects the Use of Organizational Discourse Markers in Popular-Science Discourse (Based on TED talks)
Author(s) -
Elena Yu. Viktorova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
izvestiâ saratovskogo universiteta. novaâ seriâ. seriâ filologiâ/izvestiâ saratovskogo universiteta. novaâ seriâ. seriâ filologiâ. žurnalistika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-898X
pISSN - 1817-7115
DOI - 10.18500/1817-7115-2020-20-4-404-410
Subject(s) - cohesion (chemistry) , narrative , linguistics , discourse analysis , sociology , discourse marker , psychology , philosophy , organic chemistry , chemistry
The article deals with the use of English organizational discourse markers which provide compositional and logical cohesion and integrity of the narration in spoken popular-science genre of TED talks. It is proved that on the level of speech organization male and female speakers using discourse markers demonstrate more similarities than differences.