The Study Of Modern Chinese Parenthesis "Jiu Shi Shuo"

"Jiu shi shuo"is a parenthesis which is widely used in modern Chinese written language and spoken language. In the grammatical units and grammar properties,it is a pragmatic conjunction which has subjective explanatory .Its main function is connect discourse.In the distribution aspect,its position is flexible that located at beginning of the paragraph,at the head of the sentence,among the sentence,being a sentence.Its marked form includes six forms,that is comma, bracket,colon,dash,modal particle and zero form.Its boundery of discourse consists of sentential boundery and extra-sentential boundery.Its basic logic semantics of the items of before and after"Jiu Shi Shuo"is interpretation and drive from explain,induce,comment,supplement,deduce,etc.Its main notional semantics of text which"Jiu Shi Shuo"connected includes overlapping,mutual containing,intersecting and separating.The pragmatic function of text which"Jiu Shi Shuo"connected is making text coherent.Turnning pround into plain,subjective function,metalingual function,continuing and converting topic,marking intormational focus,restriction are drived of coherent function.In conversation,the main functions of"Jiu Shi Shuo"are making conversation coherent,starting or ending a turn-taking,adding repeat explain,theme restriction,conforming to reasoning,embodying pragmatic principle,delaying thinking,etc.In grammaticalization,"Jiu Shi Shuo"went through express verbal meaning,repeat discouse content,subjective interpretation,as conjunction.In grammatical mechanism,the structure of"Jiu Shi Shuo"gradually fixed because of grammatilization of"Shuo".In cognttive mechanism,following high frequent use ,"Jiu Shi Shuo"underwent from the concerte behavior domain of speaking to abstract behavior of cognition.