臺灣華語句末語氣詞「的」、「欸」之傳信範疇分析

Taiwan Mandarin seems alike to Mandarin, but the usage of them are different. This happened over time due to historical and environmental factors(He 2009, Cheng 1997, Yu et al. 1999). In daily conversations, speakers use utterance-final particles to convey the exact meanings to their listeners, so that both parties can achieve communicative effectivity. This study aims to investigate(1). the evidentiality and(2). the subjective meaning of utterance-final particles. We interviewed native speakers of Taiwan Mandarin and examined the presupposition and implication with the interview transcript. The results show that the utterance-final particles de(的) and e(欸) convey their precise evidentiality in tense, aspect, and mood. Additionally, the usage of the particles is taken as an indispensable pragmatic skill and ability when people communicate with each other, because they include speaker's subjective meanings. Presupposition, implicature, or presupposition and implicature are used when people talk. We hope that this study can provide a resource for teaching utterance-final particles, and both teachers and learners of Taiwan Mandarin can reasonably infer and master them.