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Analization On The Subjectification Of Adverb "too"

Posted on:2008-01-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X FanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215992878Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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This paper analyzes the subjective aspect of adverb "too" in the modern Chinese language and explores the type of subjective information implicated by "too" with the relevant achievement of cognitive linguistics. On the basis of previous studies, this paper further investigates the operative mechanism of which "too" implicates the subjective information.Chapter 1 is about the reviews in terms of the past and present achievement on adverb "too". In chapter 2, the theory foundation and research method of this paper was introduced. Subjectification is an important lingual feature, no exception with modern Chinese. Judging from the point of subjectification, what is the subjective information implicated by "too" ? What is their operative mechanism? These are the issues that this paper focuses in.In chapter 3, the scope of research was confined and the data origin was illuminated. The objective "too" and subjective "too" was distinguished according to the study of subjectification and the feature of adverb "too" in modern Chinese.Chapter 4 thoroughly probes into analyzation on the subjective expression of "too". There are six types of the subjective expression of "too": emphasis; circumbendibus; rebutment; affirmation; remind; pause and transition in melody. "Solidification" of entailment and pragmatic inference is the main cause of semantic development. In order to have a correct comprehension of the subjective expression of sentences which contains "too", we must pragmatically amplify the meaning in coherence with situation from the aspect of basic grammatical meaning and pragmatic premise of "too" according to subjective attitude of the speaker.Chapter 5 is the discussion about the operation mechanism of which "too" implicates the subjective information. The implicit meaning of "too" was attained from the speaker. It closely relates to the ground.Chapter 6 is a brief summary of the whole study.
Keywords/Search Tags:adverb, "too", subjective, subjectification, pragmatic inference
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