臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

這個研究的目的是要探索英語口語語法、專注的頻率、含糊的語言和英語為母語的使用話語標記功能。這項研究是由20個奧普拉電視節目為例的紀錄副本組成的語料研究。使用基於文本分析的含糊語言和話語標記的具體例子來進行分類，然後進行分析。此外，這項研究在紀錄副本內發現了任何不尋常的方面。
主要調查結果總結如下。首先，在這項研究中確定了最常發生的那些含糊不清的語言是出自於說話者在思考如何說話時含糊粒子的排序和用於短暫暫停談話的種類。具有固定頻率，以每8分鐘一次，每16分鐘一次的頻率平均發生在語料庫中。較少出現在口語中的是含糊不清的標籤。一個模糊標記是用來在談話中找出給定特徵的基礎上的一組事物。這些分別為每53，90，150和180分鐘發生一次。
在這項研究的其他研究結果是根據觀察發生的談話筆錄。值得注意的是像”啊哈”的口頭禪，可能會影響未來的研究，將利用這個語料庫類似的頻率為基礎的研究。此外，重複的關鍵字或短語在廣播期間，可能需要藉由刪除在談話的間歇，或向觀眾強調重點來提示，也可能影響的研究。
總的來說，這些發現在這篇論文中發現進一步揭示一些元素和口語語法之間的可能關係。因此，在今後的類似的研究，以及提供更好的畫面覆蓋在這篇論文的教師和課程設計者的口頭語功能提供了一個跳板。

關鍵字: 英語口語，模糊標籤，模糊顆粒，話語標記

The purpose of this research is an exploration into spoken English grammar and focuses on the frequency and function of vague language and discourse markers used by native English speakers. This research is a corpus study comprised of 20 transcripts from the Oprah Winfrey show. Using text-based analyses specific examples of vague language and discourse markers were analyzed in order to get an overall sense of their relevant prevalence in the English language
The most common vague language covered in this thesis were or something, whatever, and stuff and or anything in the corpus. These occurred once every 53, 90, 150 and 180 minutes respectively. The discourse markers covered in this research were I mean, like, well and you know. These occurred once every 5.66, 4.35, 2.55, 1.49 minutes respectively. Based on the frequency of occurrence observed in this study it appears that the need for discourse markers to facilitate conservation is greater than the need for being vague in a conversation.

Table of Contents
Chinese Abstract i
English Abstract ii
Table of Contents iii
Lists of Tables v
Lists of Figures vi

Chapter 1 1
Introduction 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Purpose and questions of this study 3
1.3 Significance of this study 5
Chapter 2 7
Literature Review 7
2.1 Studies on spoken English 7
2.2 Influence of media on spoken language 10
Chapter 3 17
Methodology 17
3.1 Elements of spoken language 17
3.2 Corpus 20
Chapter 4 23
Results 23
4.1 Vagueness 23
4.2 Summary of findings 66
Chapter 5 68
Discussion and Conclusion 68
5.1 Discussion and Conclusion 68
5.2 Limitations 69
References 71
References (websites) 78

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