Putu Nur Ayomi

Navigating Challenge and Commitment: A Domain-Functional Analysis of Discourse Markers in Zohran Mamdani’s Al Jazeera Interview

In unscripted talk, speakers constantly signal how each utterance connects to earlier talk and how the listener should receive it. Small expressions known as discourse markers (DMs), carry much of this work. This study investigates the DMs produced by the interviewer and by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in an Al J...