The Rhetoric Function Study On The '把' Sentence

The '把' sentence is one of sentence pattern to be used widely in modern Chinese as well as one of the most characteristic grammar phenomena. Former worthies and contemporary scholars have studied extensively on the'把' sentence and have made encouraging progress, especially in syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and teaching aspect. The article make a simple analyses on rhetoric function of the '把' sentence on the basis of the study of its grammar. The fundamental cause of the '把' sentence is rhetorical demand. The '把' sentence is one of representative of grammar rule that come from rhetorical form, which is regarded it as a novel structure at the beginning of its emergence (namely positive rhetoric) whereas lately become an universal syntax structure (namely has become negative rhetoric). The article count the distribution situation that the '把' sentence in various style of writing and reach that the semantic and rhetoric characteristic was the important grounds that various style of writing chose it. The article compare the '把' sentence with the common verb-object predicate, the '被' sentence, the '使' sentence, the'把' '被' coexist sentence and complicated ones in rhetoric. Furthermore we can interpret it by 'displacement schema' theory. Thus we draw a conclusion that the '把' sentence is a common sentence pattern that has subjective disposition and distinct rhetorical effect.