Research Of The Discourse Markers In The Current Trilogy

This article establishes The Torrent Current Trilogy,a modern literary work,as its research target by dissecting it.The Torrent Current Trilogy is one of the masterpiece of Chinese contemporary literature which created in the 1930s.The work is set in a new-old the may 4th movement social transition period,describing the ebb and flow of Gao's mansion,where used to live a large fedual family in an extraordinarily typical manner.Since the story happens in a specific historical background,the discourse markers are characterized in distinctive transitional era.The article consists of 5 chapters.First of all,there's the introduction of the language research status of The Torrent Current Trilogy and research overview of discourse markers.It briefly explains the causes of the selection of the subject,the research significance and technique as well.The second part is divided into non-lexical forms based on determing qualitative study.The third and the fourth part divide lexical forms of discourse markers into interpersonal cognitive function and discourse organization,according to the roles they play in specific context of situation and analysis.The fifth part is to dissect some contributing factors in influence with the use of the discourse markers in The Torrent Current Trilogy and come to draw the conclusion that the differences in status,gender and context of situation are important reasons.In recent years,Chinese-oriented scholars fixed their sights on the research of discourse markers.What Wu fuxiang said was right:"The research of discourse markers in China has been relatively lagged behind and is supposed to be an important task for further Chinese research."Appellation and rhetoric are the mainstream of the former study of the novel,without addressing the layer of discourse markers. This essay,therefore,focuses on the study of discourse markers,in which the excavation of a new perspective of linguistic research in The Torrent Current Trilogy is of pioneering significance to some extent.When it comes to the research technique,this article manages to combine quality and quantity as well as description and explanation,classifying and summarizing the discourse markers as well a carrying on deep discussion about some representative discourse markers.seeking to reflect the whole outlook of the discourse markers in a specific way.