DISCOURSE MARKERS SPECIFIC FOR SPOKEN ACADEMIC SPEECH (BASED ON TEXTS OF LECTURES) 

Viktorova Elena Yur'evna, Candidate of philological sciences, associate professor, sub-department of English philology, National Research Saratov State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky (83 Astrakhanskaya street, Saratov, Russia), helena_v@inbox.ru

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Background. The article deals with some aspects of functioning of discourse markers specific for monological spoken academic discourse of the Russian and the English languages. The goal of the research is to single out discourse markers specific for monological spoken academic discourse, quantitative data processing, comparative analysis of the results in the two languages.
Materials and methods. The research is based on the texts of lectures on different subjects – linguistics, literature, chemistry, physics, psychology, history. The overall data of the study comprise 26,000 words. The number of usages of the studied discourse markers is 330 cases. The methods of continuous sampling, contextual analysis, quantitative and comparative techniques were used.
Results. Discourse markers specific for monological spoken academic discourse are subdivided into hesitation markers, means of direct address, phatic signals and emotional markers. In Russian lectures they occur less frequently than in English ones, but show the same range of diversity in the both languages. Hesitation markers are the most frequent and the least diverse among all the studied marker types both in English and Russian. Means of direct address are less frequent, though quite diverse especially in English lectures where they are very polite and more mitigating. It is proved that in the English data these markers are not only more frequent but more diverse and individual than in Russian. Phatic markers occur rarely in the both languages, while emotional markers were marked only in English lectures.
Conclusions. All these markers refer to regulative verbal means playing very important roles in the interaction between a speaker and an addressee. Many peculiarities in these markers functioning are culturally and nationally coloured, besides they reflect the individual communication style of lecturers, including their method of lecture delivery.

discourse marker, academic discourse, the Russian language, the English language, means of direct address, hesitation marker, regulative information.

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