Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Contents -- Part I: What are Discourse Markers? -- 1 Discourse markers: What are they and where do they come from? -- 2 Discourse markers vs other types of pragmatic markers -- Part II: Discourse Markers at Different Levels of Linguistic Description -- 3 The semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers -- 4 The grammatical status of discourse markers -- 5 Discourse markers and prosody -- 6 Discourse markers and discourse/ conversational units -- 7 Clusters of discourse markers -- Part III: Approaches to the Study of Discourse Markers -- 8 Discourse markers in a contrastive perspective -- 9 Discourse markers and quantitative corpus linguistics -- 10 Discourse markers and genre -- Part IV: Discourse Markers and Interfaces -- 11 Discourse markers and politeness -- 12 Discourse markers and social variation -- 13 Discourse markers and second language acquisition -- 14 Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing -- Part V: Discourse Markers in the Major Romance Languages -- 15 Discourse markers in French -- 16 Discourse markers in Italian -- 17 Discourse markers in Spanish -- 18 Discourse markers in Catalan -- 19 Discourse markers in Portuguese -- 20 Discourse markers in Romanian -- Index