APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE MARKERS ANALYSIS
Discourse markers analysis as part of discourse analysis has recently become one of the most interesting and promising directions in linguistic research. There is much controversy in respect to the definition of this phenomenon in discourse. The paper focuses on presenting different definitions of the term discourse marker and reveals various features of this phenomenon. Moreover, three approaches to analysis of discourse markers, those of Halliday and Hasan, Schiffrin, Fraser, which represent the so-called coherence-based approach, are summarized and described.