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 (---, meaning 'you know'), thereby contributing to a deeper understanding of discourse markers in Chinese language use and broader linguistic studies.

Yi Shan is a professor at Jiaxing University, China. His research focuses on pragmatics, particularly discourse analysis, research methods in linguistics, and health translation. Weiwei Chu is a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University, China. Her research interests include discourse analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and translation.

1. Introduction 2. Review of Literature 3. Methodology: Turning Speech into Evidence 4. Quantifying Syntactic-Prosodic Patterns 5. Deconstructing ni zhidao: A Multidimensional Interface 6. Toward a Multidimensional Architecture of ni zhidao