英语口头语篇中元话语标记成分的功能分析

Functional Analysis of Metadiscourse Markers in Oral English Discourse

元话语是在日常语言使用中表现出来的一个普遍特征。根据Ken Hyland提出的元话语范畴及分类模式,以《新标准大学英语视听说教程》为语料,把元话语研究应用到对口头语篇当中,通过分析真实语境下的话语交流,探讨口头语篇中元话语标记的各种交际和互动功能,在理论上验证了元话语与实证研究的关系。

Metadiscourse is one of the main features in our daily language usage,and many scholars have made a wide research to metadiscourse phenomenon in almost all type of written discourses.Based on metadiscourse category and its classification model by Ken Hyland,and taking the books New Standard College English Listening and Speaking in Real Communication as data,this article applies metadiscourse research to oral English discourse.Through analyzing listening and speaking in real communication,it explores various interactive and interactional functions of metadiscourse markers in oral English discourses,which is not only an addition to the research of metadiscourse,but a theoretical verification to the relationship between metadiscourse and practical research.