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A Functional Approach to Discourse Markers

Author: YangZhuJun
Tutor: GaoZhiHuai
School: Hebei Normal
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Discourse markers Connectivity Communicative - Modal
CLC: H313
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2005
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The discourse marker growing interest after the since Halliday and Hasaon, \However, existing studies have failed to form a unified, important differences discourse marker name, classification, characteristics and functions. Domestic studies suggest that three main features: separability of discourse markers the semantic deficiency and pragmatic excitability. The authors believe that the discourse marker (discourse marker) more universal, and therefore the term, but the broad and narrow discourse marker, this study focuses on a generalized study. Since the focus of this paper is to discuss the function of the discourse marker, comparative analysis of previous studies, the authors believe that it is necessary to re-examine the discourse marker from a functional perspective. Combination of form and function of the discourse marker will consider the overall analysis, and from the following three aspects of connectivity, communication and modal discourse marker language. Connectivity: discourse markers in discourse can contribute to discourse construct coherent bond. Communicative: the dialogue is a product of social exchange, session participants in order to achieve successful communication of the results to be positive efforts. Communicative language external use features include security features, such as the face. The success of the speaker wants to communicate, it is necessary to confirm that the other can understand themselves and added to the topic or speak into hope someone can understand the implied meaning. The communicative modality sexual interwoven. Modality: this category can express the speaker's attitude problem. The process of discourse, the speaker will continue to check their own words so that it can be the other to accept, and the speaker according to the context, cognitive purpose, the other party to accept the situation constantly self-adjusting. Communication is the communicative process of the two sides clear intent to conduct exchanges, in order to successfully achieve this goal, the discourse marker is one of the indispensable means of discourse exchanges emphasis on its role in order to better study the discourse, the research behind the words 's intentions. , As many scholars have pointed out, the discourse marker is a long time since people ignore the problem, there are many problems associated deserves further widely explored. Although they are not an expression of the basic vocabulary of the content and meaning of the words, but one of the speaker fluency strategy, they can not simply use the traditional system of written language syntax analysis, so no attention in English teaching. Implications for the EFL, this study is that, in teaching and communication, we want to introduce the true nature of the corpus, and encourage the use of discourse markers. In conclusion, the authors would like to draw the reader interest in language the kind of \

A Functional Approach to Discourse Markers

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