The Anaysis Of The Smanticand Pragmatic Functions Of "zhishao"

In many kinds of Modern Chinese Dictionary,the“zhishao”is Highlyaccurate explained as“The lowest limit”.In fact,it often contains the speaker’ssubjective traces when it is used.because the subjectivity is closely related to itscontext.,so we should do some research about its context,not just the sentence level.until now, there are less researches abou“tzhishao”in a systematic and depth angle.In this paper, through the theoretics of text linguisticsand other theoretis todiscourse about“zhishao”.The whole paper is divided into5chapters, main contentsare as below.The first chapter is about the introduction of the research status,thesignificance of the topic, research theory and data sources.The second chapter isabout the syntax and semantic analysis of“zhishao”. We also inspect the syntacticdistribution of“zhishao”and makes the statistic about the appearance frequency of“zhishao”in each kinds of sentence category. Then starting from the basicgrammatical meaning of“zhishao”, we summarize the semantic feature of“zhishao”.addational we analyze the Semantic orientation of“zhishao”from“orientation”“amount”“the actual situation”.In the third chapter, we mainly studyon the appearance, methods of conjunction, movement and related factors,presupposition and context of“zhishao”. Because“zhishao”is often used as atextual conjunction by repeated usage and appearance with other conjunctions. Thefourth chapter is about the pragmatic characters of“zhishao”,which includesstylistic distribution and pragmatic functions. The fifth chapter is the conclusion ofthe whole paper.