A Study On The Acquisition Of Contrastive Discourse Markers In Spoken Chinese

Discourse marker is not only a means of discourse organization,but also an indicator of the speaker's feelings and attitudes.It plays an important role in the cohesion and construction of discourse.The acquisition level of the discourse markers is closely related to the learners' level of spoken language expression.Therefore,teaching Chinese as a foreign language,especially for oral teaching,should pay more attention to the teaching of Chinese discourse markers.There are many kinds of discourse markers in Chinese.The research object of this paper is three typical contrastive discourse markers in contemporary Chinese language:"keshi","danshi" and "buguo".Based on the interview records of foreign graduate students in Nanjing Normal University and the second season of the TV talk show"Informal Talks" for foreign students,this paper makes exhaustive statistics and analysis of the corpus,and finds that learners tend to use the contrastive discourse marker "danshi" in the communication,while they often take an evasive attitude towards "keshi" and "buguo" these two contrastive discourse marker.For the features of discourse function,learners usually use the function of topic expression and semantic-pragmatic relationship(turn)in discourse function,while their performance in interpersonal function and interactive function is relatively weak.According to the induction and analysis of errors in the corpus,the diversity of learners' errors can be found.The sources and causes of errors can be divided into linguistic factors and pedagogical factors.Interlingual transfer plays a dominant role in linguistic factors,but learning environment,learning strategies and communicative strategies are all likely to be the main factors in pedagogical factors.Therefore,it is necessary to make a specific analysis according to the specific error situation.Finally,through above analysis,the author aims to give some relevant adaptive suggestions for teaching,in order to provide useful attempts and help for the teaching of contrastive discourse markers in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and achieve better teaching effect.