Function And Cognition Of Modern Chinese Adverb "Ye"

This paper mainly studies on the modern Chinese adverb"Ye", it analyzes the source of this adverb"Ye"from the perspective of diachronic in terms of subjectivity, it also focuses on the profound contribution of"Ye"in modern Chinese concept,interpersonal and discourse function as well as compound sentence format; What's more, it explains all these functions of"Ye"with the theory of cognitive linguistics. The main ideas are as follows: (1) the modern Chinese adverb"Ye"is derived from the modal particle"Ye"in ancient Chinese, and the acquisition of the"affinity"meaning of"Ye"is the process of the transference of pragmatic reasoning meaning to referential meaning between speakers and listeners; (2)"affinity"is the prototype meaning of the modern Chinese adverb"Ye", other meanings like"coexisting","adding","decreasing", etc. is the result of conceptualization of human cognitive capability towards the semantic structure(compare framework) of"Ye"; it stands out different parts of"Ye"in its semantic structure and it serves as a component of the idealized cognitive pattern of the meaning of"Ye"; (3) the mood adverb"Ye"is the grammarization of the conjunctive adverb"Ye"based on synchronic, the"Ye"sentence with or without the premise sentence or without the premise represents the three stages of"Ye"during the process of gammarization. As the comparative criterion in comparative framework changes from reality to unreality, subjectivity increases accordingly; (4) the conjunctive adverb"Ye"is quite subjective after the process of subjectivity, the mood adverb"Ye"expresses"evaluation mood". Though its"affinity"meaning is less used, the"compare"framework still functions. Serving as the program information, it leads people to compare speech premise with actual events and then attains the speaker's evaluation attitude towards the actual events; (5) the mood adverb"Ye"is the information marker of counter-anticipation which is concerned with the"graph-background"separation principle, thus the loss of premise sentence is the representation of pragmatic strategies when the speaker uses the inadequacy principle; (6)"Ye"connects text with various ways during different stages of grammarization, i.e. when the"affinity"of"Ye"stands out, the similar characteristic in small sentences is the result of cohesion of both the former and the latter sentences; when"Ye"has the tendency of subjectivity, recessive cohesion to some extend shows the language awareness of the speakers. As not all the text endpoints can be found within the discourse, under the circumstance of language negation, listener carries on pragmatic reasoning between the language surface and different types of ICM. After the subjectivity process of the conjunctive adverb"Ye", the"similar"meaning of the mood adverb"Ye"fade, thus highlighting the significance of the process."Ye"simply manifests a conjunction, connecting the text endpoints existing in pre-sequence of the speaker and subject of the discourse, thus becoming markers of the speaker's attitude towards the subject and guiding listener through "bridging reference" to achieve coherence within the discourse. (7)the compound format concerned with"Ye"can be classified into"juxtaposition"and"transition"two categories, and it also has something to do with the meaning of"Ye"itself, because the formation of compound sentences is also the reflection of human cognition to the objective world.