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Use of Discourse Markers kind of and sort of in Modern American English

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The study aims to explore how discourse markers, kind of and sort of, are used inmodern American English. For the purpose, the spoken section of the Corpus ofContemporary American English (COCA) was investigated to examine the frequencyand functions of the target discourse markers chosen for the study. By frequency, kind of was more frequently used than sort of. Compared to the usage of the target discourse markers in the spoken portion of the British National Corpus (BNC), it was found that modern American English prefers kind of to sort of. The analysis of COCA produced that both discourse markers showed high frequency in the corpus and they playedvarious roles such as a face-threat mitigator, a delay device, a compromiser, and asoftener depending on which constituent the marker modifies. Out of these functions,no prevailing function was identified as the instances of the target discourse markerstaken from COCA were too many to be analyzed in detail.

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The study aims to explore how discourse markers, kind of and sort of, are used inmodern American English. For the purpose, the spoken section of the Corpus ofContemporary American English (COCA) was investigated to examine the frequencyand functions of the target discourse markers chosen for the study. By frequency, kind of was more frequently used than sort of. Compared to the usage of the target discourse markers in the spoken portion of the British National Corpus (BNC), it was found that modern American English prefers kind of to sort of. The analysis of COCA produced that both discourse markers showed high frequency in the corpus and they playedvarious roles such as a face-threat mitigator, a delay device, a compromiser, and asoftener depending on which constituent the marker modifies. Out of these functions,no prevailing function was identified as the instances of the target discourse markerstaken from COCA were too many to be analyzed in detail.

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