| In modern Chinese,there exists a kind of expression such as“kandoubukan(看都不看)”and“xiangyemeixiang(想也没想)”in which the semantic focus is the negation of the verb,but the identical verb is repeated at the beginning of the structure,which violates the principle of economy in language use.This thesis takes expressions“Vdou(都)/ye(也)bu(不)V”,“V dou(都)/ye(也)bie(别)V”and“Vdou(都)/ye(也)mei(没)V”as research objects,and these expressions are collectively referred to as the“Vfu(副)fou(否)V”construction.This kind of construction is regarded as one of the non-typical verb copying constructions,featured by the copying of two identical verbs in the same structure.It is conspicuous that the basic and core meaning of this construction comes from the component structure“fou(否)V”.Then questions may arise,such as:Why is the verb copied and repeated?Why don’t we discard the first half and just say“fou(否)V”?How is the constructional meaning generated semantically?What pragmatic functions does it perform?Previous studies concerning Chinese verb copying construction concentrate on the typical form such as “SVOde(得)VC”,paying far less attention to non-typical verb copying constructions.Besides,most of the studies are qualitative analysis and focus on the generating mechanisms,pragmatic usages and so on.Given these,this study aims to solve the following research questions:(1)What are the characteristics of verbs in“Vfu(副)fou(否)V” constructions? What constructional meanings can be generalized based on the characteristics?(2)How is the constructional meaning of“Vfu(副)fou(否)V” constructions generated?(3)Why can the “Vfu(副)fou(否)V”construction perform the pragmatic functions that emerge from its constructional meanings?This study integrates Langacker’s(2016)baseline/elaboration organization and Du Bois’(2007)stance triangle,coming up with the B/E-S analytical model.The thesis also adopts a combination of qualitative and quantitative method.The linguistic data is mainly collected from BCC(BLCU Corpus Center)corpus together with other corpus like CCL or previous related studies.Collostructional analysis developed by Stefanowitsch & Gries(2003)is employed to process the linguistic data collected from the corpus.The analysis of the linguistic data draws the following conclusions:(1)The characteristics of verbs in “Vfu(副)fou(否)V” construction lie in three aspects: they are mainly verbs of behavior,together with a minority of verbs of mental activity,willingness and direction;the number of monosyllabic verbs outweigh polysyllabic verbs;transitive verbs surpass intransitive verbs in number.The prototypical constructional meaning is the complete negation of the behavior of the sentence subject,sometimes with a kind of subjective emotion.It also has many instantiation meanings such as scorn,neglect,non-achievement and so on.(2)The semantic generation mechanism of the construction is the baseline/elaboration organization.In the structural elaboration,the adverb and the verb is operated on the structure “fou(否)V”successively,generating the prototypical constructional meaning of complete negation of the action.In the systemic elaboration,lots of instantiation meanings are derived from the prototypical meaning,which is elaborated by the speech ground.(3)The pragmatic function of the construction is performed by the operation of shift of perspective and Du Bois’(2007)stance triangle theory.Going through the operation of stance triangle,the construction has the pragmatic function of expressing some kind of epistemic modality towards the action behaved by the sentence subject,in most cases negative emotions.The nature of the pragmatic function is the extensional meaning extended from the constructional meanings.This thesis is significant in both theory and practice.Theoretically,it deepens the research depth of modern Chinese verb copying construction by revealing the generating mechanism and pragmatic functions of “Vfu(副)fou(否)V” construction,and facilitates the localization of cognitive grammar and its fusion with pragmatic theories.Practically,the research can be widely applied to modern Chinese language research and teaching,particularly Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language(TCFL),interpersonal communication,and so on and so forth. |
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