| Modern Chinese “da xie de X” is a popular online language in recent years.It is a highly productive construction.The construction appears frequently on the web platform,especially news headlines.In fact,the construction appeared a long time ago,but now it have generated new meanings and usages.In this essay,by means of combination of description and explanation,qualitative and quantitative,we analyze and study the composition and the whole structure of this construction.At the same time,we expound and explain the generation and development of new usages.Finally,we explore the development mechanism and motivation of the construction.The first chapter is mainly about the reason why the topic is selected,the source of the corpus and the theoretical method,and also a brief overview of the previous research.The second chapter mainly describes and explains the common term “da xie de ”and the variable term “X” respectively of the construction,and also analyzes the basic characteristics.The third chapter analyzes and explains the origin and development of the meanings of the construction from the semantic aspect.Through the analysis,it can be seen that construction “da xie de X” have undergone semantic development and evolvement certainly: from the original meaning which was used to represent the written form,to the “da xie de ren” which gives its righteousness of subjective sense,and then “da xie de X” derives degree meaning.The fourth chapter explains the whole construction “da xie de X” from two aspects: grammatical function and pragmatics.The fifth chapter mainly summarizes the evolution mechanism and the popular motivation of the construction.The sixth chapter gives a brief introduction and description of the relevant variants which derived from “da xie de X”.The final conclusion summarizes the main contents of this whole essay,it’s also a comprehensive summary of the construction. |