The Discourse Marker ni zhidao ("You Know") in Chinese Spontaneous Speech

Drawing on media interview materials, this book takes a holistic approach to examining the Chinese discourse marker ni zhidao (你知道, meaning “you know”), thereby contributing to a deeper understanding of discourse markers in Chinese language use and broader linguistic studies.

Using a mixed-methods approach that combines quantitative and qualitative analyses, the study explores the marker’s utterance positions, semantic properties, prosodic features, and pragmatic functions. The research empl...