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The present research focuses on the multiple functions performed by the discourse marker and in annotated spoken-like texts of TED Talks and its Lithuanian and Hungarian counterparts. The annotation of TED Talks in both Lithuanian and Hungarian has started only recently, which results in the limitation regarding the quantity of annotated texts. The research findings show that and performs multiple functions, including the function of addition, discourse management and structuring discourse and there are often fuzzy boundaries on the domain level. The data on the Hungarian target language equivalents of and reveals that in addition to fuzziness on the domain level we can also observe fuzziness on the category level, as the boundaries between coordinator and discourse functions of and are not invariably clear-cut.
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The research contribution by Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė has been funded by the European Social Fund under the No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712 “Development of Competences of Scientists, other Researchers and Students through Practical Research Activities” measure.
The research contribution of Ágnes Abuczki to the present study has been supported by the post-doctoral grant of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary (NKFIH research project code: PD121009).
The research contribution of Šárka Zikánová to the present research was supported by the grant project “Implicit relations in text coherence” (GA 17-03461S).
Also, for training in annotation and generating ideas for future research we acknowledge the support of TextLink COST action IS1312.
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Oleškevičienė, G.V. et al. (2019). Fuzzy Boundaries in the Different Functions and Translations of the Discourse Marker and (Annotated in TED Talks). In: Furkó, P., Vaskó, I., Dér, C., Madsen, D. (eds) Fuzzy Boundaries in Discourse Studies. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27573-0_11
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