Abstract

“Some people say” have an obvious connective function in the discourse, which constitutes “communicative speech block” or “speech block”, that is, “Some people say + direct elements”. Based on a large number of corpus observations, this paper discusses the position, function and co-occurrence of “Some people say”, with a view to complementing the study of speech-like parenthesis.

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