Based on the reports of 60 Chinese extraordinary disastrous events by mass media, the present paper investigates the use of contrastive discourse marker “at first I thought” by the survivors of the sudden disastrous events describing with conversation analysis. The research questions are as follows (1) what are people’s reactions to extraordinary disastrous events? (2) How do people describe their first reaction to a disaster in words? (3) What is the relationship between their first reaction and subsequent facts? The finding of current study is when disastrous event witnesses or survivors describe the sudden events, they hold the sense of nothing serious happened in their mentality, and adopt “At first I thought A, then I realized B” and its different variants to describe their first reactions. According to the data, the relationship between their first reaction and subsequent facts is as below: the collision between wrong first thought and correct reality; by using the immediacy markers, or credentials, one begins to identify the correctness of first thought; and naked reports of a catastrophic first thought can be used to describe the extraordinary disastrous events.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Research method and data description of the present study 3. Literature review of pragmatic discourse marker studies 3.1 Foreign pragmatic studies on discourse markers since the 1980s 3.2 Pragmatic research on discourse markers in China 4. A study on pragmatic patterns of contrastive marker at first It hought in extraordinary news reports 4.1 Introduction of Pomerantz’s Type 1 knowables & Type 2 knowables 4.2 At first I thought A, then I realized B 4.3 No credentials + immediacy marker/Credentials + immediacy markers 4.4 Naked reports of a catastrophic first thought 5. Conclusion References
키워드
conversation analysis; at first I thought; immediacy marker
저자
Hailan Ma [ Jeonju University / Ph.D student ]
The first author
Dong-Jin Shin [ Jeonju University / Assistant Professor ]
The corresponding author
한국언어연구학회 [The Korean Association of Language Studies]
설립연도
1996
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
한국언어연구학회는 언어학과 언어교육 분야의 연구를 통하하여 학문의 질적 향상과 국내외 회원 및 학회간의 학술 교류와 친목을 도모한다. 이를 위해 학술 연구 발표회, 강연회, 강습회를 개최하고, 정기학회지, 연구보고서, 서적 등을 간행하며, 그 밖에 지역사회에 필요한 사업과 연구 활동을 수행하는데 중점을 두고 있다.