Discourse markers and their influence on writing

The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of the speech markers on the football journalistic editorial staff of the sports newspaper "El Bocón" during the 2017 Closing Tournament. For this purpose, a corpus composed of 104 examples from the same newspaper was analyzed, achieving the following results: a total of 111 markers were verified, of which 26 are innovative, since they come from Peruvian colloquial speech and fulfill the same function proposed by the inventory of Martín Zorraquino and Portolés (1999). Likewise, it can be seen that the textual genre of the sports discourse of the newspaper El Bocón for the 2017 Closing Tournament has essentially used connectors and, to a lesser extent, structural and conversational markers. From these findings, it can be inferred that, in large part, these markers are more appropriate for sports writing.