演讲中话语标记语的社会语言学特征——以“So”和“因此”为例-《集美大学学报》（哲社版）

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Title:: A Study on the Sociolinguistic Features of Discourse Markers“So” and “因此” in Public Speeches

Author(s):: HAN Dong-hong; （School of Foreign Languages，Jimei University，Xiamen 361021，China)

Keywords:: discourse markers; sociolinguistic features; social class; public speeches

摘要:: 建立英汉演讲语料库，采取定量和定性方法，从社会阶层分析话语标记语“so”和“因此”在分布频率、句法特征、搭配模式和语用功能中的社会语言学特征。结果发现，“so”的标准频率高于“因此”，领导人和普通大众使用“so”的频率相近，而领导人使用“因此”的频率是普通大众的近3倍。在句法特征上，“so”和“因此”多位于句首，较少在句中，但不在句末使用。“so”可与“and”或“now”连用，而“因此”无类似搭配。领导人和普通大众使用“so”和“因此”的句首非搭配模式最为频繁。在语用功能上，领导人最常用“so”和“因此”表示推理，而普通大众则常用来表示推理和唤起关注。由此可知，社会因素对演讲中“so” 和“因此”的语言特征和语用功能均产生不同程度的影响。

Abstract:: This paper，based on a self-built corpus of English and Chinese public speeches，aims to explore the sociolinguistic features of discourse markers “so” and “因此” in language distribution，syntactic features，combining forms and pragmatic functions from the perspective of speakers’social class.Findings show that “so”is employed with a higher standard frequency than “因此”.Leaders and the general public use “so”with similar frequencies，while leaders use “因此” with a frequency nearly three times higher than that of the general public.In terms of syntactic features,“so” and “因此” are mostly located sentence-initially，occasionally sentence-internally，but not sentencefinally.“So” can be combined with “and” or “now”，but “因此” has no combining forms；the patterns of “so” and “因此” at sentenceinitial position are most frequently employed by both leaders and the general public.In terms of pragmatic functions，“so” and “因此” are most commonly employed by leaders to express reasoning，while most commonly used by the general public to make inference and arouse attention.The study indicates that social class has different influences on the linguistic features and pragmatic functions of “so” and “因此” in public speeches.