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Hunan Lianyuan Yeung Ka Beach, Then Overlapping Research

Posted on:2008-01-15Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:C F PengFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360212485722Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Repetition is not only a word-building, but a kind of morphology as well. Repetition is widely practiced in many languages and dialects. This paper, through studying the repetition of adjective, verb, noun and measure word used in Yangjiatan, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province, describes and analyzes their forms, meanings and functions, meanwhile, investigates how repetition of adjective is practiced in different genders, ages and communities in the context of social linguistics. Aims: first, through comparatively comprehensive describing and analysis synchronically, the paper reveals the form, meaning and function of those parts of speech; second, it enriches the repetition research of Chinese language by the resources of local points, thus benefits the studying generality and typology of Chinese; third, taking the research of repetition of adjective used in Yanjiatan as example, it summarizes the using characteristics in different genders, ages, communities and groups, and reveals the social diversification of the repetition of adjective and calculates its developing trend, which brings new approaches to the research of repetition.Totally speaking, the research of repetition is a process of systernizing and deepening, although the researches of different parts of speech lack balance. Taking the example of notional words, the repetition research of adjective and verb is more easily seen and the approaches are also diversified. Besides the traditional research of form, meaning and function, researchers explored the sound phonetic change and the condition of repetition. Conversely, the research of noun, measure word, numeral and pronoun is less. As for function words, there is only a little research of adverb. Meanwhile, the researches of repetition among different dialect areas arenot balanced. In some dialect areas, the researches are fruitful, especially the official dialect area; in some other areas, the researches are less, such as Xiang dialect area.There are 5 parts in this paper. The first four parts describes and analyzes the form, meaning and function of the adjective, verb, and noun repetition in Yangjiatan; the fifth part conducts social linguistic investigation of the adjective repetition though case study.From the above study, we get a deeper view to repetition. Firstly, in term of the repetition form, there are complete repetitions and incomplete repetitions in the above four parts of speech. Secondly, in term of the repetition significance, except for the measure word, there are the significance of word-building and morphology in the repetition of the other three parts of speech. The former contains two parts, forming new words and forming new construction. The latter also consists two, changing the syntactical functions and morphological features of words, as well as "tuning". The same repetition form can express different meanings, and the same meaning can be expressed in different repetition forms. Consequently, there is no marked signal in both. Thirdly, the function of repetition has both limitation and breakthrough. Fourthly, every word's repetition form has a trend to spread and penetrate into other words for language is a system. Fifthly, the repetition form AA in Yangjiatan dialect has a trend to stylize. Sixthly, through the social linguistic investigation of the practice of adjective repetition, women are more likely to use repetition, the elderly are more likely to use the common repetition there than the young. Meanwhile, the adjective repetition form ABAB in mandarin is on the wayto go into Yangjiatan dialect.
Keywords/Search Tags:repetition form, meaning and function, case study of usage
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