L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria

Year 30 No. 3 (2022): Issue 3/2022
Articles

Discourse Markers/Particles in Chinese L1 and L2: Retrospective and Prospective

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  • Hongyin Tao
Hongyin Tao
University of California, Los Angeles

Published 12/19/2022

Keywords

  • discourse marker/particle,
  • spoken Chinese,
  • multimodality,
  • Chinese L2 pedagogy

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Tao, H. (2022). Discourse Markers/Particles in Chinese L1 and L2: Retrospective and Prospective. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 30(3). Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/512

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Abstract

In this paper, I start off with a discussion of some of the basic issues in discourse markers/particles (DM/P). I then turn to the state of the art in Chinese DM/P research, including both the L1 and L2 fields, noting that while an impressive amount of work has been conducted since the beginning of the 21st century, a number of important issues still exist, including conceptualization and identification of DM/P and deficiencies in genre understanding and data selection. I propose that future research may benefit from reconceptualization of the phenomenon and construction of multimodal corpora, which will afford new perspectives stemmed from diverse semiotic resources (including auditory and bodily/visual features) and serve as the basis for an improved Chinese L2 pedagogy.

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