"diye" (digar) in Hamedani dialect;, a multifunctional discourse marker

The main function of discourse markers is to make connections between the discourse and the discourse situation, thus managing the interaction between speaker and listener, expressing the speaker's attitude, and organising the flow of discourse. In this research, different functions of the pragmatic marker diye in the Hamedani dialect were examined. To achieve this goal, around six hours of audio and video files of the Hamedani dialect corpus were used. Diye is a high-frequency pragmatic marker in the Hamedani dialect and has several functions. For example, our results show that this pragmatic marker is used for interpersonal functions such as expression of attitudes, emphasis, and confirmation-seeking, as well as for indirect responses (in order to evade the subject and appeal to shared knowledge between speaker and listener). In terms of textual function, it helps to keep or relinquish the floor, show a sequence of events, or end a topic, or to express an explanation, justification, contradiction, addition, or conclusion in relation to a previous or subsequent proposition. Examining the intonation of diye with Praat software shows that the intonation pattern of this pragmatic marker varies, depending on its particular function.