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Abstract
This thesis investigates three principle topics related to reformulation markers (RMs) in Spanish: the first is the classification of these markers based on their function in spoken discourse; the second is a proposed relation of entailment between the speech segment being reformulated and the reformulation; the third is the syntactic position of markers within discourse. An extensive literature review sets-up the proposed framework for RMs, based on four categories: explanation, recapitulation, rectification, and distancing. Using oral interview data taken from the Madrid corpus of PRESEEA, this framework, as well as the relationship of pragmatic entailment, are tested through qualitative discourse analysis. I conclude that most RMs are found in utterance-medial position, while further research is needed to corroborate findings based on classification and entailment relationships.