由反问句到话语标记:话语标记的一个来源——以“谁说不是”为例

From Rhetorical Question to Discourse Marker:a Source of Discourse Marker

话语标记"谁说不是"来自反问句,篇章中主要衔接前后观点、态度相同或相异的语段,起到过渡、延续话题的作用。会话中,它在应答对方的基础上给予情感上的认同,为接下来要说的内容提供缓冲,既可延续、转换话题,也可以终结话轮。信息传递的经济性促使反问句简化,发生从双核到单核的转变,语用推理、重新分析造成小句固化,话语标记"谁说不是"才得以形成。

The discourse marker ＂shuishuobushi＂ comes from rhetorical questions. It can mainly connect with opinions and attitudes that are the same or opposite in passages,and functioned transitionally,tenderly and continually. In a conversation,it not only responds to the partner,but also agrees with the partner emotionally. The economical of a message trans- fer promotes rhetorical question structure grammatically. Thus,it happened to change from double cores to single core. The use of pragmatic inference and reanalysis make short sen- tences solidified. As a result,＂shuishuobushi＂ comes into use as a discourse marker.