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This study examines the status of oh as a discourse marker. Fraser(1990, 1999) does not consider oh as a discourse marker because it seems to indicate no relationships between discourses. However, Heritage(1984, 1998, 2002) claims that oh plays a role of discourse marker as a state-of-change token. Other researchers including Schiffrin(1987, 1999), Trester(2009), Tree and Schrock(1999) also suggest that oh be used to reveal the connections between discourses. Oh serves as a discourse marker in two ways: it can be used to imply the change of state of information or knowledge and to reveal the change of state of orientation or awareness. Those two aforementioned functions of oh exemplify the status of oh as a discourse marker