"discourse marker" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling."
      ],
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        "(linguistics) A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "connective"
        },
        {
          "word": "filler"
        },
        {
          "word": "interjection"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse",
          "word": "diskurssimerkitsin"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Diskurspartikel"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Diskursmarker"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "marcator de discurs"
        }
      ],
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        "discourse marker"
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  ],
  "word": "discourse marker"
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    {
      "form": "discourse markers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "word": "interjection"
    }
  ],
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        "A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling."
      ],
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        "(linguistics) A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling."
      ],
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        "human-sciences",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse",
      "word": "diskurssimerkitsin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Diskurspartikel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Diskursmarker"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "marcator de discurs"
    }
  ],
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