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The Functions of Discourse Markers in Chinese-English Consecutive Interpreting
ZHAO Zechao, LI Ziang, DENG Jianhua
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2019.02.002
Northeastern University, Liaoning, China
The term “discourse markers” (DMs in short) was raised in the 1970s and 1980s. Fraser, a linguist, believes DMs have no truth-conditional meaning which means DMs do not change the prepositional meaning of the sentence. He classifies DMs into three categories: discourse topic markers, discourse activity markers, and message relationship markers. It can be concluded that in conference interpreting, DMs explicit internal structures in three aspects: parallel relation, contractive relation, and elaborative relation based on the analysis of DMs in rendition of Premier Li Keqiang’s press conference from 2014 to 2017.
discourse markers (DMs), conference interpreting, pragmatic theory
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