LEXICAL MARKERS WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY LECTURE

Scarce research relating the spoken lecture discourse and the correlation between meaning and interaction has been carried out to date. One aspect of the relationship between meaning and interaction is explored here by taking the Greek particles lip n (“well”), ára (“so”), oréa (“fine”), and investigating their use within a university lecture by using the tools of the conversation analytic tradition. The lexical items under study fit into the category of what has traditionally been framed as discourse markers. In this study we centre our attention on the lecture genre and we analyze the communicative purpose of the aforementioned discourse markers within spoken academic discourse.