"Awww, we r sorry wai": Pragmatic Functions of L1 Discourse Markers in Ghanaians' English-Based WhatsApp Conversations.
The use of discourse markers (DMs) in written conversations has long been seen as features of oral conversations that chatters transfer into their written conversations when they wish to activate the informal relationships they developed in oral conversational contexts (see e.g. Landone 2012 and Ram...
| Published in: | Contemporary Journal of African Studies Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 60 - 87 |
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Institute of African Studies
2018
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