| Metadiscourse markers generally exist in the discourse, and the linguistic phenomenon of metadiscourse markers can also be found in the news text in the form of carrying discourse. In this thesis, I select 618 news texts from Chinese Youth Daily in December, 2012 and December,2013 randomly to analyze the distribution features and functional characteristics of metadiscourse markers in the news discourse, and to probe into the metadiscourse markers in discourse comprehension and textual construction.On the basis of previous research, this thesis combines speech act theory and the theory of systemic functional linguistics to define the metadiscourse markers. Also, the modality, independent components and connections are distinguished from metadiscourse. In this thesis, metadiscourse markers were defined as the language components which have no conceptual meaning but application significance, regulate and control speech and verbal interaction through a variety of ways, do not participate in the propositional content, and are used to represent various logical relationship between utterances.Metadiscourse markers in the news texts can be divided into two categories:textual function metadiscourse markers and interpersonal function metadiscourse markers. From the perspective of the statistical results of the corpus, textual function metadiscourse markers are used more often in the news report texts, and interpersonal function metadiscourse markers tend to exist in the news comment texts.News text is the discourse form which takes the public as readers. When constructing the news text, except presenting objectively the recent events, the authors sometimes express their point of view about the events. Though the metadiscourse markers are not involved in the propositional content, they help the authors to organize the topic and play a role in regulation of discourse cohesion. Therefore, metadiscourse markers can convey information and express the personal attitude of the authors. |
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