Chinese Language and Discourse - Online First

摘要 本文采用会话分析的研究方法，根据汉语自然会话中“反正”引导的话语出现的序列环境和话轮设计方式，证明“反正”作为一种“表明对既存并列项的察觉和选择”的装置（device）在言谈互动中被广泛使用，其基本功能是，交际者在察觉到前文中显性或者隐性地存在着源自不同交际者话语的两个或数个并列项后，通过“反正”引导的话语表明要在其中做出选择的态度。在此基础上，本文还论证了以往研究中提到的“反正”一语所具有的“对不同意见的坚持”“表示让步”“态度指示”“回归话题”和“总结”等功能都是由上述功能衍生而来的。最后，本文明确了“反正”作为互动行为资源，具有“暗示对比”和“实现对话题的控制”等功能。

The current paper reports on a study investigating the prosodic features of the Chinese discourse marker haole. The data were collected from 14 native Chinese speakers who participated in two recording sessions designed by the authors. The results indicate that haole as a discourse marker occurring at different syntactic positions is prosodically distinct. Specifically, in some cases, haole at the left periphery (LP) is prosodically independent of its following utterance, while haole at the right periphery (RP) is always prosodically attached to its preceding utterance. In addition, haole at LP is higher, larger, and longer than haole at RP, respectively, concerning pitch, intensity, and duration. The study suggests that these differences are closely related to the pragmatic functions of haole as a discourse marker in oral interaction. The findings above may shed light on the incorporation of prosody into the pragmatic analysis of discourse markers and conversation management in general.