Buscador de Personas - SIGEVA - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Conversation is the prototypical speech event in which discourse markers occur as they are conceived in the general theoretical framework presented in Schiffrin (1987) with the modifications introduced in Redeker (1990). Courtroom discourse data, however, provide empirical evidence of their basic functions not as applications specific to a particular type of speech event (as some studies of classroom discourse have revealed), but as realizations of their core contributions to the oral text and the social context. Thus, the analysis reveals aspects of the use of ¿no es cierto? and the combination 'bueno pero' that range from cohesion and modality to social action and participants relations. The data come from eighteen trials in one of the major cities of Argentina, have been collected ethnographically as part of a broader research agenda, and include the various text types produced in court trials. From this theoretical and methodological standpoint, it is possible to engage in a dialogue with other research traditions that have focused on the category 'discourse markers'. Some of the key issues are the scope of phenomena particular theoretical perspectives illuminate, the usefulness of certain conceptions of meaning for the study of the forms in question, and the soundness of existing taxonomies. In addition, the examination of discourse markers in a highly formal, institutional speech event highlights an unexplored rhetorical aspect of oral institutional discourse in which discourse markers are involved: its hetereogeneity and the exploitation of register as a resource. The concepts of genre and performance become crucially relevant in accounting for the presence of typically conversational discourse markers in the corpus.

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