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A Review of Studies on Discourse Markers in China

Lin Qiao

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This paper reviews studies on discourse markers(DMs) in recent ten years in China from the aspects of pragmatics,discourse analysis,conversation analysis and language acquisition.Analyses show that the definition DM needs to be furthered and the scope of DM studies should be widened.Future research will focus on the comparative study of discourse markers between Chinese and English and the construction of discourse corpus.

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Key concepts: Pragmatics, Scope (computer science), Linguistics, Discourse analysis, Focus (optics), Conversation, China, Discourse marker