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Journal of Pragmatics 14 (1990) 383-395 383 North-Holland AN APPROACH TO DISCOURSE MARKERS Bruce FRASER* Discourse markers are expressions such as now, well, so, however, and then, which signal a sequential relationship between the current basic message and the previous discourse. The purpose of the present paper is to propose that discourse markers be considered a well-defined pragmatic category within the grammar of a language. A framework for se