| Abstrakt: |
This article examines the use of three discourse markers, well, now, and okay, as used by three 8- and 9-year-old boys when they are engaged in a particular sort of role play: pretending to be interviewers and interviewees who are part of a sportscast. Using these markers helps the children create and signal the imaginary participation framework of the interview and distinguish it from that of the surrounding talk. The markers work as initial and final bracketing devices for the interviews, serve to identify the interview as a self-contained unit, and indicate a change in speaking role among various pretend characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
