A Comparative Study Of Discourse Markers In Advanced Oral Chinese Textbooks

Discourse marker is a common discourse phenomenon.It does not affect the propositional expression of sentences,but only has procedural significance and plays an important role in verbal communication.In teaching Chinese as a foreign language,the reasonable use of discourse markers can enable Chinese learners to speak as fluent and authentic spoken Chinese as native Chinese speakers.The special status of discourse markers determines that they play an important role in Chinese teaching and textbook compilation.Textbook compilation is one of the four major links in language teaching.Textbook is the carrier of teaching content and the direct corpus for students to learn Chinese.This paper takes three sets of advanced oral Chinese teaching materials as the research object,and makes a comparative analysis of the classification,quantity and treatment of discourse markers in each set of teaching materials.According to the results of the analysis and comparison,it summarizes the compilation characteristics and deficiencies of advanced oral Chinese teaching materials.Finally,combined with teaching Chinese as a foreign language,some suggestions are put forward on the use of discourse markers in oral teaching and the compilation of oral teaching materials.The thesis is mainly divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction,which mainly includes the introduction of research origin,research significance,research summary,research ideas,research objects and reference outline.The second part is the definition and classification of discourse markers,which has been controversial for a long time.The author redefines discourse markers and classifies them from two aspects: structural form and pragmatic function,combining the previous viewpoints and the teaching materials studied.The third part introduces the quantitative distribution of discourse markers in the three sets of textbooks.According to the classification of Chapter 2,this part will sort out and compare the total amount of discourse markers and the number of different types of discourse markers.The fourth part is the arrangement of discourse markers in the textbook.This chapter mainly starts with the exercises and annotations of discourse markers,focusing on the analysis of the exercises,annotations and quantities related to discourse markers.The fifth part summarizes the characteristics and shortcomings of discourse markers in the three sets of textbooks.Combined with the comparative study of discourse markers in the previous chapters,summarizes the characteristics and shortcomings of textbook compilation.The sixth part is the teaching suggestions and textbook compilation suggestions related to discourse markers.Starting from the analysis and comparison of discourse markers in three sets of advanced spoken Chinese textbooks,namely "Spoken Chinese","Developing Chinese" and "New Target Spoken Chinese",the author tries to put forward suggestions on the teaching and textbook compilation of Chinese markers from a point-to-point perspective.