Discourse markers are linguistic elements that lead to the relationship between speech units. Discourse markers are expressions that show the relationship between the basic message and the previous discourse. The purpose of this study is to analyze the types of discourse markers that are found in the main characters utterances in the novel "The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titans Curse" and the meanings of the types of discourse markers found in the main characters utterances in the novel "The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Titans Curse". The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. This study only analyzes the discourse markers contained in the utterances of the main characters in the novel "The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Titans Curse" using Bruce Frasers theory. The data collection technique was carried out through several stages, namely reading the novel "The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titans Curse", taking the main characters utterances containing discourse markers in the novel "The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titans Curse ", identify and classify the types of discourse markers in the main characters utterances that contain discourse markers, and analyze and explain the meaning of discourse markers. There are four types of discourse markers found in the utterances of the main character in the novel "The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titans Curse" which include contrastive discourse markers, elaborative discourse markers, inferential discourse markers, and temporal discourse markers. The researcher found 41 utterances containing discourse markers in the novel "The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titans Curse". 19 utterances are classified as contrastive discourse markers because they indicate contrastive meaning, 9 utterances are classified as elaborative discourse markers because they indicate connecting meaning, 8 utterances are classified as inferential discourse markers because they indicate as conclusion to the previous segment, and also 5 utterances are classified as temporal markers because they indicate as adverb of time and conjunction.

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