Pragmatics of the discourse marker kαί in the functional equivalents of its translation in the Bible

The present paper offers a brief overview and evaluation of numerous contemporary approaches to the discourse markers in order to outline their novel, contextual understanding. The practical part of the paper attempts to re-interpret the usage of discourse markers in general and the Classical Greek conjunction kαί in particular. The analysis is based on the material of Textus Receptus as well as on several Bible translations, with special emphasis on the functional equivalents of the discourse marker kαί.