This research aims to examine pues, bueno, bien, yaand o sea, used as metadiscursive markers in conversation in Spanish, with the purpose of investigating their meaning and function, and studying how they are translated into Thai. Examples collected... from conversations in selected works of contemporary literature in Spanish and their Thai translation are used as study corpus. Based on this corpus the core meaning and the specific meanings or functions are explained. As for translations, expressions

This research aims to examine the meanings, functions and translation into Thai of ¿eh?, mira and oye used as contact control markers in Spanish conversation. The findings show that ¿eh? used as a tag is intended to evoke a reply or to check

This research aims to examine bueno, bien and hombre/mujer used as contact control markers in Spanish conversation with the intention to (1) explain their meaning and function, and (2) study how they are translated into Thai. Examples collected from

This research aims to examine the meanings, functions and translation into Thai of ¿eh?, mira and oye used as contact control markers in Spanish conversation. The findings show that ¿eh? used as a tag is intended to evoke a reply or to check

This research aims to examine bueno, bien and hombre/mujer used as contact control markers in Spanish conversation with the intention to (1) explain their meaning and function, and (2) study how they are translated into Thai. Examples