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I'm curious if there is a decided term for the words that begin a new utterance. They often are written with a comma following them such as below: "Well, ..." "So, ..." but the class of these words isn't restricted to single words or a particular set and can be expanded to include other parts of speech also for example: "George, ..." is there a name for these forms?

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    There are several ways to refer to such words/phrases, one of them is discourse markers.
    – Alex B.
    Dec 21, 2016 at 20:01
  • @Alex B gives the right answer.
    – mobileink
    Dec 21, 2016 at 23:07

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There is a category of words called transition words which contains your examples.

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