초록
영어
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
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
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