Abstract There has been consistent interest in discourse makers over the past couple of decades, and various proposals have been put forth regarding their functions. The present paper analyzes discourse markers in general as indicators of types of connectedness between expositive illocutionary acts (Austin [1962]1975), which bring about illocutionary effects in discourse. The discourse marker well in particular indicates a gap between the preceding expositive illocutionary act and the present one, signaling the present expositive illocutionary act is of a non-committal type. This gap is analyzed, depending on the types of the preceding and present expositive illocutionary acts, as divergence, hesitancy, a transition from one expositive illocutionary act to another, or a boundary between them.

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话语标记作为说明性言外行为之间联系的指标

摘要 在过去的几十年里，话语生成器一直受到关注，并且对其功能提出了各种建议。本文分析了话语标记一般作为说明性言外行为（Austin [1962]1975）之间关联类型的指标，这会在话语中带来言外之意。话语标记特别好地表明了先前的言外行为与现在的言外之意之间的差距，表明当前的言外行为是非承诺类型的。根据先前和现在的说明性言外行为的类型，分析这种差距，如分歧、犹豫、从一个说明性言外行为到另一个的过渡，或它们之间的边界。