Comparative Analysis Of Metalinguistic Definition Of Russian And Chinese Interpretational Verbs

Semantic metalinguistic theory of Moscow Semantic School (MSS) has a series of advantages in analyzing lexicons, but it uses Russian as its metalanguage. Obviously, Russian metalanguage can’t be used as an ideal tool for analyzing Chinese lexicons. Therefore, Chinese localization of MSS’s semantic metalinguistic theory becomes an urgent problem which should be solved. This dissertation constructs the system of Chinese semantic metalanguage by using MSS’s semantic metalinguistic theory. The system consists of two components: Words and Grammar. The extraction of words is based on the research of domestic Chinese academic circle, and it is one kind of further process than others. Grammar of semantic metalanguage comes from Chinese sentence patterns. This system is used as a tool-language for comparing semantic analysis between Russian and Chinese lexicons. The object of study is interpretational verbs between Russian and Chinese in this dissertation.The interpretational verb is a special class, by using which a speaker could express his view, idea, evaluation, and so on. The study of interpretational verb is more useful in the field of contemporary linguistics. The semantic structure of interpretational verb is mainly made up of two components: some objective event P (presupposition); the speaker’s interpretation of this event P (assertion). For instance, the semantic structure of interpretational verb determines a series of lexical, grammar and pragmatic characters. The interpretational verb and other class verbs can convert into each other under certain conditions. Mainly, there are two ways of conversion: 1) the role of semantic components is changed, or 2) the content of assertion is changed.