《摩登家庭》中话语标记语you know的语用研究_英语论文

A Pragmatic Study of the Discourse Marker “you know” in Modern Family

摘要

在日常交际中，人们经常使用一些话语标记语，例如英语中的well, oh, so, Imean, after all, you know，此现象引起了国内外语言学者的广泛关注。作为一种非常常见的话语成分，话语标记语存在与否对话语的具体内容并不会产生影响，其主要是对话语的构建和理解产生影响。因此，话语标记语的研究不仅具有理论意义，同时也具有现实意义。

国外对话语标记语的研究有很多，总得来说，这些研究主要是从三大方面着手：以Schiffrin为代表的连贯研究，以Fraser为代表的语法-语用研究和以Blakemore关联研究。在国内，虽然越来越多的语言学家也开始研究话语标记语，但是对于话语标记语如you know 的研究还是很少。

基于以往对话语标记语的研究，本文从关联理论的角度，采用定量和定性分析相结合的方法对《摩登家庭》（第一季）中话语标记语you know 的语用功能进行了分析。在摩登家庭第一季中，话语标记语you know 主要有信息提示，引入事例，引出新信息，话语缓和，话题转换，信息追加和引入假设的功能。因此，本文丰富了前人对于话语标记语的研究，也将大大帮助中国的英语学习中更好的理解和使用话语标记语。

关键词: 话语标记语；you know；关联理论

Abstract

In daily communication, discourse markers like well, oh, so, I mean, after all, you know are frequently used by people, which has drawn many scholar’s attention at home and abroad. As very common discourse elements, discourse markers mainly influence the construction and understanding of an utterance instead of affecting the specific content of it. Therefore, it is very important to do researches on discourse markers both theoretically and practically.

There are many studies of discourse markers overseas. In general, those researches are divided into three different perspectives: the coherence theory represented by Schiffrin, the grammatical-pragmatic theory by Fraser and the relevance theory by Blakemore . At home, although more and more linguists tend to do researches on discourse markers, studies of you know as a discourse marker are still rare.

On the basis of previous studies, this paper takes the discourse marker you know in Modern Family (Season 1) for instance and analyzes its pragmatic function with the quantitative and qualitative methods in the relevance theory. It can be seen that the discourse marker you know in Modern Family (Season 1) is mainly used as a reminding marker, an exemplifying marker, a providing-new-information marker, a face-threatening marker, a turn-shifting marker, a further elaborating marker and a supposing marker. Thus the thesis will give a broader researches on discourse marker you know than before and can do a great help for Chinese English learners to better understand and use discourse marker. 

Keywords:  discourse marker  you know  relevance theory