LI Ying. An Analysis of the Functions of Discourse with the Structure of a Pronoun asan Additional End Based on the Scripts of Home with Kids[J]. Journal of Neijiang Normal University, 2014, (5): 77-81.
Citation: LI Ying. An Analysis of the Functions of Discourse with the Structure of a Pronoun asan Additional End Based on the Scripts of Home with Kids[J]. Journal of Neijiang Normal University, 2014, (5): 77-81.

An Analysis of the Functions of Discourse with the Structure of a Pronoun asan Additional End Based on the Scripts of Home with Kids

  • In verbal communication, the speaker violates the cooperative principle and lets the listener to understand the meaning implied in the utterances, which is known as the conversational implicature. The double referential construction of personal pronoun breaks the quantity maxim by repeating the co-indexed pronoun when it has expressed the adequate amount of information. We can take this as a clue to study the discourse functions of this construction. The analysis of some materials shows that such construction generally is used in speech and expresses speaker's strong emotion with the same information in the form of a rhetorical question. And it usually conveys the information with the features as +Negation, +Unexpected, +Dissatisfied and +Subjective. And the element attached to the utterance is the form with strong feelings
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