Discourse marker analysis has been widely studied, leading Fraser (1998: 301) to call this
subjecta growth market in linguistics'. In our present research, we extended the study of …

This paper focuses on the negative markers meiyou and bushi (meaning 'not/no') in
Mandarin conversation and, in particular, on their idiosyncratic use in spoken discourse. In …

An expanding body of research in linguistics deals with discourse markers (DMs), the
expressions that have emotive rather than referential functions (Holker, 1991). Taking a …

The present paper investigates the frequency and functions of Chinese discourse markers in
oral speech of native Chinese speakers from mainland China. Most of the previous studies …

This study broadens the perspective of Chinese linguistics by providing an in-depth analysis
of a selected group of discourse markers in Mandarin Chinese, hao, danshi, keshi, buguo …

This paper investigates two interrelated uses of the utterance-final form dehua in Mandarin
Chinese, its the conditional marker use and the discourse marker use. While the conditional …

This article makes the first empirical corpus-based study of the actual performance of the
discourse marker (DM) nǐ zhīdào (NZ) in Chinese media interview conversations from the …

Discourse markers have been observed to be an important component of language which
perform a variety of functions in discourse (Schiffrin 1982, 1987). This study focuses on the …

This study draws on Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995), Conversation
Analysis (Sacks et al., 1974), and Politeness Theory (Brown and Levinson, 1987) in …

传统上认为, 指代词 (这, 那以及由这, 那构成的指代结构, 如这个, 那个, 这里, 那里等)
的使用是跟所指对象与说话人的实际距离的远近有关的. 虽然这种 “距离说” 能解释一般的情形 …