A Study On The "Tan Yan" Discourse Markers From The Evidentiality

"tan yan(坦言)"discourse markers are a type of discourse markers frequently used by speakers in modern Chinese.They play a very important role in interpersonal communication."tan yan(坦言)" discourse markers have the discourse function and interpersonal function of expressing what the speaker says is true.In the process of speech interaction,they gradually emerge the function of communication,which indicates the speaker’s positive attitude towards the source and authenticity of the information.In addition,its internal members also show different characteristics in many aspects.Therefore,according to the form and meaning,we have selected six "tan yan"(坦言)discourse markers,such as "shuo shi hua"(说实话),"shuo zhen de"(说真的),"shuo shi zai de"(说实在的),"shuo xin li hua"(说心里话),"lao shi shuo"(老实说),"tan bai shuo"(坦白说)as the research objects.On the basis of natural conversational spoken language corpus,starting from the category of evidentiality.This paper makes a systematic study of the nature and types,characteristics and differences,functional performance and evolutionary motivation of "tan yan"(坦 言)discourse markers.The full text is divided into six chapters,the main contents are as follows:The first chapter is the introduction.Firstly,we introduce the research background of this article,and explain the theoretical and practical significance of the research;secondly,we also review the related research results of "speaking discourse markers".This article also expounds the domestic and foreign research results in the field of communication as the basis of the research;finally,it explains the research objects,methods and corpus sources of this research.In the second chapter,judges the nature and type of "tan yan"(坦言)discourse markers.Firstly,according to the definition and classification of the evidentiality,we summarize the following three characteristics:communication language,credibility and expectation;then,based on the definition and characteristics,it is judged that these grammatical categories act as communicative markers in speech interaction and have communicative significance;then,from the source of the information and the affirmative attitude towards the information,it is futher determined that they belong to the inferential communication markers to express the speaker’s confident attitude and the speaker’s cognitive position of self inference.The third chapter examines the common characteristics of "tan yan"(坦言)discourse markers,differences in performance and the reasons for the differences.The study found that "tan yan"(坦言)discourse markers mainly appeared in two syntactic environments of "DM+Factual Sentences" and "DM+Hypothetical Sentences",presenting "realistic situation+X+supplementary explanation" and "evaluation object+X+The three semantic models of evaluation content "prerequisite+X+reasoning conclusion" have the function of confirming the reality,expressing personal position and anti-expectation;and showing differences in co-occurrence tendency,credibility and frequency of use;It is mainly affected by semantic features,subjectivity and the degree of falsification.The fourth chapter discusses the communication function and discourse pattern of "tan yan"discourse markers and their interaction.In terms of communication function,they can state facts,state positions,highlight focus,mark differences,and seek identity;in terms of discourse mode,they can appear in the initiation sequence,response sequence,and feedback sequence,and have a greater degree of sequence freedom.The emergence of communicative function is closely related to the interaction of textual cohesion and cognitive comprehension.Chapter Five examines the evolution and reasons of "tan yan"(坦言)discourse markers.The study found that discourse markers such as such as "shuo shi hua"(说实话),"shuo zhen de"(说真的),"shuo shi zai de"(说实在的),"shuo xin li hua"(说心里话)evolved from verb-object phrases to discourse markers,and "lao shi shuo"(老实说),"tan bai shuo"(坦白说)evolved from partial phrases to discourse.Marks,they all have gone through the evolutionary track of "phrase>fixing idiom>discourse marker",and the semantic development process of "action-behavior meaning>speech-acting meaning>transmitting functional meaning"."shuo shi hua"(说实话)and other language forms are often supplemented by supplementary clauses,and then evolved into additional components independent of sentences,becoming discourse markers affected by reasons such as syntactic environment,cognitive metaphors,frequency of use,and communicative interaction.The sixth chapter is the conclusion.This paper summarizes the argument ideas and main content of this paper,points out the innovation and shortcomings of this paper,and makes a prospect for the follow-up research.