关联理论视角下《生活大爆炸》中的话语标记语Okay语用功能研究.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 42 A?Relevance-theoretic Study on the Pragmatic Functions of Discourse MarkerOkay in The Big Bang Theory Abstract Discourse markers (hereafter, DMs), such as well, you know and so on, are of great importance in communication. With the publication of Cohesion in English (Halliday, Hasan: 1976) and Discourse Markers (Deborah Schifrin: 1987), both domestic and foreign linguists have been conducting researches on DMs by employing different approaches. Nevertheless, the studies on okay as a discourse marker(hereafter DM) are rare, which thus provide the scholars much room to exploit,