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A Study on the Usage Patterns and Discourse Functions of the Modern Chinese Discourse Marker "Zenmezhao"
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Abstract
As an important area of pragmatic research in recent years, discourse markers play an important role in chapter coherence and information transmission. The discourse marker "Zenmezhao" (怎么着) has rich usage patterns and distinctive discourse functions in different forms and is of great value for research. This paper selects the discourse marker "Zenmezhao" (怎么着), and analyzes a total of 196 Chinese dialogue materials in the CCL corpus that meet the discourse marker standard through corpus analysis and qualitative and quantitative methods. and analyzes its usage patterns and discourse functions in different situations according to its different positions in the turn of talking. It is found that the discourse marker "Zenmezhao" is often accompanied by an emphatic tone and has a guiding effect on the opening of the next turn of talking, but there are still specific differences in different usage patterns, which complements the research on questionable discourse markers and serves the development of chapter teaching.
Keywords
Usage Pattern, Discourse Function., Zenmezhao, Discourse Marker
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The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies (ICIHCS 2022), Part 1
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-29-4
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-30-0
- Published Date
- 17 May 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/3/20220218
- Copyright
- 17 May 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited