TERMINOLOGICAL TURMOIL IN THEORETICAL IDENTIFICATION OF DISCOURSE MARKERS

Iako je tijekom posljednja tri desetljeća proučavanje diskursnih oznaka postalo predmetom intenzivnog interesa lingvističkih stručnjaka, još uvijek ne postoji jedinstvena empirijski utemeljena teorija o ovim jezičnim jedinicama. Razlog tomu, između ostalog, leži u terminološkim previranjima koja predstavljaju ozbiljan problem i za svakoga novodošljaka u ovo područje lingvističkih istraživanja. U široku spektru različitoga nazivlja s često tek iznijansiranim razlikama u teorijskoj identifikaciji diskursnih oznaka rad se okreće najučestalijim terminima i sintetizira temeljne teorijske odrednice koje se vezuju uz svakog od njih.Although discourse markers study has become a focus of intensive linguistic research within past three decades, there is still no unified empirically grounded theory on these language units. The cause of this, among other things, lies in the terminological turmoil which seems to be a serious problem also for all the newcomers to this field of linguistic research. Within a wide spectrum of various terms, which often offer only nuances in differences related to the theoretical identification of discourse markers, this paper takes into consideration the most frequently used terms and synthesizes the basic theoretical guidelines specific to each of them