Chapter Three introduces the theoretical framework—Relevance Theory including its history, definition, principle and its development. Chapter Four is the most important part of the whole paper, which makes an analysis of discourse marker “...

There has not been a systematic study on the discourse marker Well, especially in the data of the popular American sitcom Modern family from the perspective of relevance theory. Thus, the thesis will study the pragmatic functions of the disc...

In that case, this thesis will illustrate the usage and the functions of discourse marker well with the foundation of Ran Yongping’s research outcomes and the corpus of the Desperate Housewife, the eighth season. It is designed to help Eng...