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A Comparative Study of Discourse Marker "So" between Desperate Housewives and Chinese English Learners

Author: XiaoQing
Tutor: SongHongBo
School: Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Discourse Markers so Relevance theory Pragmatic Functions
CLC: H319
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


From the 70s of the last century, the discourse marker increasingly becoming discourse analysis the pragmatic a hot topic in the study. The study of discourse markers, mainly in the definition of discourse markers, the similarities and differences of a single discourse marker characteristics of different populations discourse marker. Thus, this paper aims to related theory framework of discourse marker \This paper is divided into five parts: The first part is an introduction, an overview of the research background, significance, purpose and article structure. The second part retrospective study of discourse markers, introduces the core concepts of relevance theory and its explanatory power of discourse markers. In the third part, the paper selects the popular American TV series \All Seasons script, use the word \Relevance theory as a framework for analysis, the 326 discourse marker \at the emotional mark with 14 turn - mark. In addition to this six, the article also discussed in detail the various functions of the times and to use this feature more in the day-to-day dialogue scene. The fourth part of the 150 cases selected from the Chinese Learner English Corpus (COLSEC) \, \The result with the \The fifth part as a summary of the text, in the third and fourth part of the analysis on the basis of, for Chinese students to learn English, especially spoken language learning suggestions and pointed out the inadequacies of this article. In China, although many scholars discourse marker studied in detail, but a single discourse markers, such as \The authors hope that this study can contribute to the single discourse marker research, but also for English learners in China to provide a reasonable proposal, to promote the improvement of their English communication skills.

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