Discourse markers are not special (but they can be complicated)

This chapter discusses the identification and representation of discourse markers(DMs), indexical elements which contribute to the organization of discourse, themanifestation of the speaker or the interaction between speaker and addressee(s).I argue that, in spite of their diversity, DMs fall into two broad classes, connective DMs, which trigger presuppositions, and Hic et Nunc Particles, which triggerconventional implicatures and, like Potts’s (2007) expressives, are anchored to theutterance situation. In order to lay the foundations for a representation, I extendthe interactional framework of Ginzburg (2012) to incorporate the contribution ofDMs in a flexible way.