A Corpus-based Study of the Discourse-Pragmatic Functions of Mandarin Jiùjìng and Dàodǐ

• Main Authors: Shu-Mei Wang, 王淑眉
• Other Authors: Dr. Yu-Fang Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87323890378584719610

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 華語文教學研究所 === 99 === The aim of this study is to explore the pragmatic-discourse functions of Mandarin jiùjìng and dàodǐ in daily, casual conversations and TV/broadcast interviews from corpus. It takes Conversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson, 1974), Speech Act Theory(Austin & Searle, 1962/1969 ), Cooperative Principle & Conversational Implicature (Grice, 1975), Presupposition (Frege, 1967), and Focus on theoretical frameworks to account for them. In order to investigate the distinctive pragmatic-discourse functions of Mandarin jiùjìng and dàodǐ, this study classifies jiùjìng and dàodǐ in terms of its position in a turn. This study shows various pragmatic-discourse functions of dàodǐ in TV/broadcast interview data: starting a topic, expressing confirmation, and shifting a topic. Furthermore, dàodǐ in the casual conversation data shows various pragmatic-discourse functions: marking transtition, expressing the specker’s attitude, etc. As for jiùjìng, since it does not appear frequency in the corpus, we do not discuss it in details. As a while, the main function of dàodǐ in interaction is to express the speaker’s stance. Jiùjìng and dàodǐ are often used to connect old information and new information in utterances.