%0 Journal Article
%T A Corpus-Based Pragmatic Analysis of Discourse Marker ¡°<i>I Think</i>¡±
%A Lanping Li
%A Yang Pang
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 9
%N 10
%P 1-11
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2022
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1109301
%X Prosperous development of corpus linguistics thrived the study on discourse markers, and among them, <i>I think</i> received a large share. Based on former researches, this paper adopted both quantitative and qualitative methods and made a contrastive analysis of the textual features of <i>I think</i>, choosing fiction and TV, these two various genres within COCA. The results demonstrate that there are sharp differences between these two genres in <i>I think</i> in terms of the frequency, position, collocation and function. There is still a certain correlation between where <i>I think</i> appears and the function it performs. In short, the new perspective study in this paper shed light on an investigation of other discourse markers.
%K Discourse Marker
%K Corpus-Based
%K I Think
%K Pragmatic Function
%K Context
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/6781715