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    FUNCTIONS AND RELEVANCE OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL COMMENTARIES
    (English Language Department, Nasarawa State Universty, Keffi., 2014-09-05) Aworo Okoroh, Joy.
    The importance of discourse markers lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Schiffrin (1987) described discourse markers as “sequentially dependent elements which bracket units of talk and Blakemore (1988) as signals of procedural meaning. This research, therefore, examined these positions as regards the use of discourse markers in football commentaries. Drawing from a corpus data of televised football commentaries, it was discovered that the discourse markers go beyond the provision of cohesive relations and posses a core meaning which aids in utterance interpretation. This thesis ultimately emphasizes the necessity of inference in understanding any discourse and concludes that pragmatic inferred meaning is essential for communication.