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Pragmatic Analysis of Discourse Markers in Spoken English by Chinese EFL College Learners

Ruzheng Pei

Abstract


In this study, the discourse markers spoken by the Chinese EFL college learners are examined on the basis of a corpus of discourse of spoken test in classroom in China. The results show that the college students tend to use discourse markers to convey their thoughts on such diff erent levels as interpersonal, referencial, structural, and cognitive. They are inclined to use interpersonal and referencial discourse markers than the other to achieve the pragmatic function. Besides, the study also relates the implications on language teaching for improving learner’s profi ciency in discourse markers.

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Discourse markers ; Chinese EFL college learners ; Pragmatic functions

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i19.6233

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