Logical resultative formulae refer to theformularized expressions denoting causal/resultative relationsbetween two situations or events. In Chinese such expressions asyinwei… suoyi (因为/because…所以/so), yuanyinshi (原因是/Thereason is…)， jinran…jiu(既然/ since…就/then), etc. are widelyused cases. These expressions frequently serve as the bridgelinking two clauses; yet in communication they do not just fulfillconjunction functions, instead they convey the addresser’sattitudinal meaning, namely semantic prosody. However, up tonow, no research has been done concerning semantic prosodies ofChinese logical resultative formulae. Thus, with the help ofcorpus-assisted discourse analysis approach, the present articleattempts to do a research on semantic prosodies of Chinese logicalresultative formulae so that we can avoid misusing theseexpressions while expressing cause and effect relations in Chinese
