The Functions of Discourse Markers in Chinese-English Consecutive Interpreting

• 作者: DENG Jianhua LI Ziang ZHAO Zechao
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: DISCOURSE markers(DMs) conference INTERPRETING PRAGMATIC theory
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（2）
• 页码范围: 58-63
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: H

摘要

The term “discourse markers”(DMs in short) was raised in the 1970s and 1980s. Fraser, a linguist, believes DMs have no truth-conditional meaning which means DMs do not change the prepositional meaning of the sentence. He classifies DMs into three categories: discourse topic markers, discourse activity markers, and message relationship markers. It can be concluded that in conference interpreting, DMs explicit internal structures in three aspects: parallel relation, contractive relation, and elaborative relation based on the analysis of DMs in rendition of Premier Li Keqiang’s press conference from 2014 to 2017.