The Research Of Estimate Discourse Marker “Zhen You Ni De”

At the end of the 20 th century, the domestic scholars began to pay attention to the discourse markers and produced lots of achievements. This paper focus on the discourse marker “zhen you ni de” and endeavors to summarize the characteristics of “zhen you ni de” and the usage mode of it and the pragmatic function through the analysis of abundant language materials.As a discourse marker, it only has evaluation function and expresses subjective attitude. “Zhen you ni de” conveys speaker’s subjective attitude. The attitude contains “unexpected” and other attitudes such as praise, criticize, and faint praise. We can identify the attitude according to the context. Because “zhen you ni de” always be with the contexts with the attitudes of praise or criticize, it obtains the attitudes.Here are there components which “zhen you ni de” usually be with:1.the evaluated object; 2.some views comes from the evaluated object; 3.more particular commentary of the evaluated object. The location of “zhen you ni de” in sentence is flexible. It has some varieties such as “hai zhen you ni de”, “ke zhen you ni de” and so on. It has some pragmatic functions such as context adaptability function, interpersonal interaction function, mark topic function, emphasize information function and so on. Because of the faint tone, it has a high level of politeness. “Zhen you ni de” is good at protecting the listener’s face, so it has a good function of coordinate interpersonal relationship.