Analysis Of Adverb "Dao" In Multi-Aspects

This paper takes the adverb "dao" in modern Chinese as the main target we study and studies in details the Chinese environments in which the "dao" appeared and takes the ways of combining the description with the explanation and statistics with analysis. On the basis of the previous studies we explore and analyze the semantic, syntactic expression, the pragmatic function and characteristics of "dao".The whole paper consists of four chapters besides the conclusion part. The concrete contents are shown as following:The first chapter is the introduction part. It gives the information of the purpose and significance of this paper and introduces the research object, research scope, the other scholars'research, the sources of materials and the approach of the study.The second chapter analyzes semantics of "dao". It describes diverse semantics of "dao" in specific language environment, discusses the semantic background, semantic pattern, grammatical meaning of "dao". We also analyze ways of introducing the compared item and the relative position of "dao" and the compared item.The third chapter is the syntactic analysis of "dao". It discusses the syntactic position of "dao", the usage of "dao" in different mood and different complex sentence.The fourth chapter the pragmatic analysis of "dao". It discusses the pragmatic precondition, the pragmatic function of "dao" and the focus in "dao" sentence.The last part is the conclusion which summarizes and concludes the main contents of this paper. It also points out the inadequacies of this paper.