Discourse markers across languages : a contrastive study of second level discourse markers in native and non native text with implications for general and pedagogic lexicography This book offers a corpus based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi word lexical items serving pragmatic or text structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi word discourse markers in written English French and German focussing on dicussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi word markers by non native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications.