| With the prosperity of international trade, the international shipping is calling for qualified and competent advanced seafarers. Accordingly, STCW78/95/11(The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers,1978, as Amended) gives more prominence to communicative competence and practical application of English in the context of working. Shipping tends to be a combination of multi-national talents and professional gathering. When seafarers try to manage or cooperate with other seafarers or even lead their team in English, it is necessary for seafarers to have a deeper understanding of culture and custom of different countries.As an important expression in language systems, discourse markers are words or phrases or expressions that indicate the relation or logic of conversations or discourses. Discourse markers play an important role in daily life. It’s conducive for speakers or writers to transmit their intentions and reach their communicative goals and enable listeners or readers to understand deep meaning of conversations or discourses.The thesis will be based on the authoritative teaching materials: College English Listening, Watching and Speaking. Data are collected from the four books and are transcribed to a nearly10,000-word corpus for analysis. With the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the present study is corpus-based. It displays and discusses the results of the study in terms of distribution, colligation, collocation and position of inferential discourse markers in CELWS texts with a contrastive study of BNC and COLSEC. And the possible reasons behind the features are further explored in the study. In the end, it summarizes the major findings of the study and then comes up with pedagogical implication for maritime English. |
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