An Comprehensive Study On Tautology In Modern Chinese

Based on the fact of the Chinese language, through using the structuralism linguistics theory, the three-dimensional grammar theory, the cognitive grammar theory, and combining with the theory of rhetoric and logic, the paper comprehensively studies modern Chinese tautology from many perspectives. It discusses the semantics, syntax, pragmatic functions of tautology in modern Chinese also. It studies on tautology in modern Chinese and makes comparison with repetition and duplicated words in modern Chinese. The paper is intended to make every effort to observe adequately, describe adequately and explain adequately.Chapter one mainly introduces the definition, forming and classification. It reviewes the research survey, data sources, the research methods and the writing structure. It defines their meanings of some concepts and symbols.Chapter two gives its own definition on basis of the analysis and summary of the previous definition of tautology in modern Chinese. Tautology in modern Chinese can be divided into typical tautology (which subject and object with the same words), extended tautology (which with the head of subject and object in the same words, and, with the different attribute), and other tautology. Typical tautology includes word "shi "tautology, word "gui"tautology and quasi-copula tautology of word "xiang, cheng, wei, zuo", etc. Extended tautology can be divided into "X shi AX", "AX shi X", "AX shi BX", and "AX shi AX". Other tautologies have various types. The chapter mainly analyzes three special tautologies "bushi N de N', "mei(you) N de N", "A debunengzai A".Chapter three mainly analysis the semantics, syntax and pragmatic functions of the word "shi"tautology. Firstly, this chapter divided word "shi"tautology into single tautology, two-term tautology and many items tautology. Secondly, it analysises the semantic of single tautology "X shi X" of nominal, and the verbal's and the adjectival's. And this chapter analysises single word "shi"tautology's syntax and pragmatic functions.Two-term tautology "X shi X, Y shi Y" has two semantic types, the distinctive type and the enumerative type. This chapter analysises the two-term tautology "X shi X, Y shi Y"'s syntax, pragmatic functions and the text grammatical functions.Many items word "shi"tautology only have trinomial and quadrinomial. It has two semantic types, the distinctive type and the enumerative type. Negative adverb "bu", positive adverb, scope adverb, time adverb, frequency adverb, modal adverb, degree adverb, correlative adverb can enter tautology "X adv shi X". The successive application adverb before word "shi" have similar's and dissimilar's. The similar's successive application adverb main is commentary adverb and scope adverb.Chapter four mainly analysises the semantics, syntax and pragmatic functions of word "gui" tautology. Firstly, this chapter divided word "gui" tautology into single tautology, two-term tautology and many items tautology. The substantive which can enter word "gui" tautology is restricted, in other words, the substantive should have certain subjectivity meanings. The X of single tautology "X gui X" main is predicative words and predicative phrase, and the X main is verb and verbal phrase. But only typical attributive adjectives can enter the single tautology "X gui X". Then it analyzed the condition of whether can replacement of the substantive single tautology "X gui X" with the substantive single tautology "X shi X". And analyzes the conditions acts as sentence elements of predicative single tautology "X gui X", the pragmatic sense of verbal single tautology "X gui X" and adjectival single tautology "X gui X". Every single tautology "X gui X" expressed unknown information in the sentence, and it has large information volume. It is usually cohesion context through words (duplicate, synonym) means and semantic means. It also analyzes the single tautology "X gui X'"s textual grammar functions.The words which can enter two-term tautology "X gui X, Y gui Y" all is full, the substantive which can enter it is restricted. The substantive two-term tautology "X gui X, Y gui Y" only can indicate one semantic type, the distinctive type. Then this chapter analysises the condition of whether can replacement of the substantive two-term tautology "X gui X, Y gui Y" with the substantive two-term tautology "X shi X, Y shi Y". The verbal two-term tautology "X gui X, Y gui Y" can indicate two-semantic types, the distinctive type and the enumerative type. The adjectival two-term tautology "X gui X, Y gui Y" only can indicates one semantic types, the enumerative type. This chapter not only analysises the grammar functions of the two-term tautology "X gui X, Y gui Y", but also analysises the sense types among S,, the two-term tautology "X gui X, Y gui Y", and S2. Chapter five mainly studies four extended tautology,"X shi AX", "AX shi X", "AX shi BX", and "AX shi AX". It discussed the sense effects and the rhetoric effects of four types, too.Chapter six mainly discusses three special tautologies. First, it analysises tautology "bushi N de N"'s logic relations, rhetoric effects, semantics, syntax and pragmatic function. Second, it analysises tautology "mei(you) N de N"s semantics, syntax and pragmatic function. Finally, it analysises tautology "A debunengzai A"'s semantics, syntax and pragmatic function.Chapter seven is epilogue. It sums up the main contents, and point out the insufficient place of this dissertation.Based on the previous and tokikata researches, this paper comprehensively studied modern Chinese tautology. This paper tries explanatory and summary the semantics, syntax, pragmatic functions of tautology in modern Chinese powerfully.