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Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres
Edited by Wei Wang
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 13] 2020
► pp. 37–58

Chapter 3
Conversational narrative marker

Identification and modification

 | Shaanxi Normal University
This study presents a corpus-based analysis of the pragmatic identification and functional modification of Chinese conversational narrative marker (henceforth CNM). Adopting a three-dimensional design from pragmatic-semantic-cognitive views of CNM, the present study proposes that a CNM is a linking device establishing the narrator’s subjective attitude to introduce his/her narrative intent. The study has extracted “ranhou” from the author’s self-constructed Chinese conversational narratives corpus, which comprises 15 pieces of casual talks by 38 adult native speakers of Chinese. The study has found that (1) semantically, CNM holds the cohesion-oriented function for introducing referential default and semantic default; (2) pragmatically, CNM plays an interactive role between the discourse sequentiality and contextual inference demonstrating the economy of language and salience of semantic representation; (3) cognitively, the intentional cognitive cooperation between the narrator and the listener have been revealed by CNM.
Keywords: conversational narrative marker, pragmatic identification, discourse function, “ranhou”
Article outline
  • 引言
  • 会话叙事标记的身份: 从交际建构到目的修辞
  • 会话叙事标记: 语用-语义-认知的互动体现
    • 会话叙事标记的语用定位及叙事维度体现
    • 会话叙事标记的语义路径及语义缺省体现
    • 会话叙事标记的认知配合模式及其意图信息体现
  • 会话叙事标记的身份确认及其功能修正
    • 会话叙事标记的身份确认主要体现在以下两个方面：
  • 结束语
  • 注释
  • 参考文献

Article language: Chinese

Published online: 28 August 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.13.03zhu
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