“Qiguai de shi” as a Counterexpectation Discourse Marker and Its Functional Study

“奇怪的是”是现代汉语中经常出现的一个话语标记，在句子表达中具有反预期意义。本文将从句法表现、语义特征和语用功能三个方面对反预期话语标记“奇怪的是”进行讨论。句法上，“奇怪的是”出现的形式主要有三种，语篇位置上多位于句中和句首；语义上，“奇怪的是”具有突发性、转折性和质疑性三个特点；功能上，“奇怪的是”具有反映认知偏离、表达言者立场和凸显信息焦点三种功能。“Qiguai de shi” is a frequently used discourse marker in modern Chinese, which has counterintuitive meaning in sentence expression. This paper will discuss the discourse marker “Qiguai de shi” from three perspectives: syntactic expression, semantic features, and pragmatic function. Syntactically, the expression of “Qiguai de shi” mainly has three forms, and its syntactic position is often in the middle of the sentence or at the beginning; Semantically, “Qiguai de shi” has three characteristics of suddenness, contradiction, and skepticism; Functionally, “Qiguai de shi” has three functions of reflecting cognitive deviation, expressing the speaker's stance, and highlighting the focus of information.