Of course, it is also true that for other learners, neither approach is entirely successful. Their language development may become arrested in an immersion environ-ment, once their communicative needs have been met. For some, classroom instruction is unduly limiting. Perhaps a more important issue than whether to emphasize language use. | Chapter 25 Adverbials 497 Used paragraph-initially 22 77 tokens it presents the topic and provides a transition with what preceded Sometimes the truth itself is better than fiction. An almost illiterate man served three years in jail for a warehouse robbery he insisted he didn t commit. His defense was that he was a mile away in a shopping plaza but he had no witnesses. Lee 1991 58 Used paragraph- or episode-medially 42 77 tokens sometimes elaborates upon or restates the preceding argument Well there are some aspects that overlap. Sometimes say for instance the matter of point of view will come up in a poem. It s crucial in fiction and it s not something you think a lot about in poetry. Lee 1991 60 Used paragraph- or episode-finally 13 77 tokens sometimes is used to sum up the preceding arguments to show the result of a process or some change or to offer a final alternative as in the last sentence of the following speaker turn It used to be said my friend Beth grieving the death of her middle son that whenever I d catch myself in repose I d be aware that I wasn t happy. Somewhere along the way there has been a change. I m no longer feeling that ever-present sorrow. I feel comfortable again in moments of repose. Sometimes I feel very happy. Lee 1991 60-61 Of Course Versus Obviously For both sentence-initial of course and obviously the proposition s truth value is so unarguable from the speaker writer s perspective that he or she projects strong certainty to the interlocutor. Of Lee s 125 tokens for of course 93 were spoken and 32 written. For obviously there were many fewer tokens . 37 but a better balance between the spoken 20 37 and the written 17 37 corpus. Lee characterizes of course as having a persuasive rhetorical function while presuming the listener shares the opinion expressed by the speaker it marks a point of departure from the argument in the prior discourse and simultaneously provides another perspective that contrasts with the prior discourse often
