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dentity as a manifestation, attribution, or membership of a rich set of characteristics.  Kroskrity (2000) argued that identity was the linguistic construction of membership in one or more social organizations or categories. Simon (2004) set up the Self-aspect Model which referred to self-characteristics. It includes personality (for example: extrovert), ability characteristics (for example: swimming well); physical characteristics (for example: tall and thin), behavioral characteristics (for example: go to school late), role (for example: father), group members (for example: audience). 

Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundation of the Study ........................... 15

3.1 Hyland's Model of Metadiscourse ......................... 15

3.2 Verschueren's Adaptation Theory ................................ 17

Chapter 4 Research Design ............................... 19

4.1 Research Questions ............................ 19

4.2 Research Methods .................................. 19

Chapter 5 Results and Discussions ........................ 22

5.1 The Distribution of Interactional Metadiscourse in TBBT .............. 22

5.2 Pragmatic Identity Construction with Interactional Metadiscourse in TBBT ................ 23

Chapter5 Results and Discussions

5.1 The Distribution of Interactional Metadiscourse in TBBT

Based on the dialogues in the first season of The Big Bang Theory, this chapter will build a self-constructed corpus of 45,939 words to collect and analyze the interactional meta-discourses. In this chapter, a combination of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis will be adopted to analyze the collected interactional meta-discourses. Quantitative analysis includes the frequency and the percentage of, interactional meta-discourses; Qualitative analysis focuses on the pragmatic identities of the three protagonists that are constructed by interactional meta-discourses and the adaptation of these pragmatic identities to communicative contexts. 

By analyzing of characters' dialogues in the first season of The Big Bang Theory, it is clear that, many interactional meta-discourses are used in order to achieve the purpose of better interaction between speakers and listeners and construct the pragmatic identities of the three protagonists. Table 5-1 shows the overall results of interactional meta-discourses. Frequency refers to the number of occurrences of each interactional meta-discourse in the corpus. Percentage represents the proportion of the each interactional meta-discourse to the total interactional meta-discourses. 

Chapter6 Conclusions 

6.1 Major Findings of the Study

Based on the dialogues in the first season of The Big Bang Theory, this thesis uses a quantitative method to analyze the usage and distribution of interactional metadiscourses according to Hyland's interpersonal classification model. Then, qualitative analysis is adopted to analyze the pragmatic identities constructed by the three protagonists through interactional metadiscourses. Finally, based on Verschueren's Adaptation Theory本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。