The Analysis of Discourse Markers Used in Business Section of Thai Online Newspapers
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At present, writing skills can improve the effectiveness of communication. This research may be conducted in online newspapers in the business section to give a creative way to use writing skills. This research aimed 1) to investigate the frequency and percentage of using discourse markers in the business section of two Thai online newspapers, 2) to examine the use of discourse markers in the business section of two Thai online newspapers, and 3) to compare the use of discourse markers in the business section of two Thai online newspapers. Three types of discourse markers as instruments were followed by theory of Fraser (2009 : 293-320). The number of samples was a total of 80 selected articles in the business section: 40 articles from the Bangkok Post and 40 articles from the Nation. This research used both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The statistics used for collecting data were the frequency and percentage of discourse markers appearing in the two Thai online newspapers and the content analysis.
The results of this study showed that Elaborative Discourse Markers were used the most in both Thai online newspapers, followed by Contrastive Discourse Markers and Inferential Discourse Markers, respectively. Regarding the comparison between the Bangkok Post and the Nation, it was that using Elaborative Discourse Markers in the Bangkok Post (553 times) was higher than using Elaborative Discourse Markers in the Nation (511 times). And using Inferential Discourse Markers in the Bangkok Post (14 times) was less than that of Inferential Discourse Markers in the Nation (33 times). In summary, this research will be beneficial to teachers, students, course developers, academic staff, and stakeholders to use discourse markers in an accurate way to create their own written works and to create their future research as well.
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