| Discourse markers is a special phenomenon of language. Not only is a common means of oral communication, and often appear in the drama genre which is an important means of communication used to complete the proper use of discourse markers can effectively improve the success rate of verbal communication. Therefore, the study of discourse markers has important theoretical and practical value. This paper attempts to mark the discourse theory Schiffrin et al based on Liao Yimei pioneer drama appeared in 129 discourse markers comprehensive description and analysis to explore the Liao Yimei pioneer drama DMs use characteristics, as a deep understanding of pioneer language drama charm a window.In this paper, the study of discourse markers of a more comprehensive sort of based on the combination of Chinese discourse markers actual research, pointed out its main features. In this paper, Liao Yimei Pioneer Drama-"pessimism Trilogy" as the research object, according to the nature of the characteristics of Chinese discourse markers to identify 129 discourse markers and semantic-pragmatic perspective will be divided into seven categories, from the strength of the angle of subjective expression of these attitudes are divided into seven categories of subjective and objective type discourse markers. By adopting the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis method of Liao Yimei pioneer drama about the distribution and function of discourse markers to lay the foundation for explaining its distribution characteristic. At the same time, using research methods of comparative analysis to find the different distribution between Liao Yimei pioneer drama discourse markers and the classic drama discourse markers, and analyze the restricting factors of discourse markers used. The comprehensive research of two research methods, we find that there are a total of 129 discourse markers in Liao Yimei pioneer drama, more than twice as much as the classic drama, diversity, and its frequency of occurrence is higher than the classic drama; relational discourse markers using high frequency, indicating that there are a lot of long sentences, and attaches great importance to Cohesion and coherence in Liao Yimei pioneer drama; evaluation type, type assertions, evidence type DMs "smooth" distribution and a higher frequency of use in Liao Yimei pioneer drama, because of literary pioneer life during the strong intervention, advocates of Critical Realism; and classical drama unfold relatively syntactic positional distribution, found that although Liao Yimei pioneer drama discourse markers appear in the sentence (6.3%) and end (0.9%) and the proportion of sentences of classical drama discourse markers appear in the sentence (1.57%) and at the end (0.62%) compared to the proportion of the sentence, showing an upward trend, indicating the distribution position DMs of Liao Yimei pioneer drama is more flexible.In this paper, the manifold a plum pioneer drama discourse markers, provides a new perspective for the study of the drama language, and also can broaden the drama text research field of vision. In addition, it can enrich and deepen the contents of DMs. |