Inspection Of The Word "Dangran" From Various Aspects

Dangran(当然)has two kinds of phrase in modern Chinese, one is an adjective, one is an adverb. Educational circles already has final conclusion to this. But, the grammaticalization and modal,semantic,functional speciality study of modal adverb dangran appeared to be no more.This thesis takes used modal adverb dangran as the object of research on the predecessors'research results in modern chinese. The main body of this these is to take the semantics,the modal,the grammaticalization and mechanism,the character of semantic,the syntactic function,the pragmatic function and the textual function on dangran as the content concretely.We will make a various aspectual inwestigetion of dangran by means of combining synchronic with diachronic. Full content has several parts of the following mainly:Chapter 0.IntroductionThis part has been sketched studying on the general situation and the problems of dangran, makes the main body of the research content clear, especially describes the fundamental semantics of dangran and the modal expression and the division of small kinds. Comparing every family statements, we think dangran's fundamental meaning is to express the certainty of a fact or conclusion, a certain modal adverb. In factual language material, the certain modal has three different kinds of expression: emphatic affirmative modal,complemental affirmative modal,responsive affirmative modal.ChapterⅠ.The course of grammaticalization and mechanism on dangranThis part applys grammaticalization theory to card the evolution on dangran,the development and evolution has experienced three periods: (1) Eastern Han Dynasty to Sui-Tang dynasty.This period is the time of dangran's brewing and creation.(2) Song Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty.This period is the time of dangran's development and reformation.(3)Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty.This period is the time of dangran's breakout and stabilization.On the examination to grammaticalization mechanism of dangran,we mainly explain grammaticalizational agency from four aspects: (1) Dangran's syntax location changment (2) Dangran's syntactic structure changment(3) context effection(4) General melting of a word meaningChapterⅡ. Dangran's semantic directionThis content, we analyse dangran's forward semantic direction and afterward semantic direction on the viewpoint of semantic connection the adverb with the other language components,the sentence or the sentence components.We find out a little tendentious law: (1)The weaker modal the more refer to forward in the inclination.as the bigger scope, the lower degree of grammaticalization. (2) On the contrary,the more refer to afterward in the inclination.ChapterⅢ. Dangran's syntax and syntactic characterThis part, we inspect dangran's syntactic location, syntactic function and the choice of sentence type,shifting and appearing and their functional difference.Dngran's syntactic location is very nimble, both can be located in middle sentence, the head sentence, tail sentence also, be located in the head and the middle text. On syntactic function dangran can both link components, clause, sentence, also can link the text, even if can form a text independently. The liberty degree of the choice to the sentence type is relevant to the syntactic location, syntactic distribution and the degree of the grammaticalization. Dangran can be shifted from the middle sentence to the head sentence, and the reverse is also true. In actual language material, dangran can appear,also can latent secretly, even do not appear necessarily. When dangran is shifted or latent,the pragmatic and textual function is different from the former. ChapterⅣ.Dangran's pragmatic function and mechanismThis part, we inspect dangran's four kinds of pragmatic function detailedly according to the context of dangran's linguistic unit: formulational function, appraisal function, emphatic function, responsive function.The thesis analyzes dangran's pragmatic mechanism from grammaticalizational degree,subjective degree,information and focal point,marking topic,thinks that dangran's pragmatic function is relevant to the degree of grammaticalization, subjectivization,marking topic,information focal point.ChapterⅤ.Dangran's text and textual functionThis part, we fix the boundary of dangran's text and textual function, think that the text is to refer to the text, paragraph, turn(话轮), sentence, phrase, word,dangran's textual function is to cohere the former and later text.Then inspects dangran's textual function type,think that dangran has three kinds of cohesion according to dangran's locational linguistic unit.The cohesion of inner sentence,the cohesion of between sentences,the cohesion of between text,and respectively examinates the relation between cohesive content.On the basis of predecessors'analyzing textual theory,we try our best to discuss the textual function mechanism and functional degree,think that the modal adverb dangran's textual function and functional degree is not only synchronic behaviour,but also the result of diachronic development;not only the causing of metalanguage increation,but also the need of social intercourse expression;not only the decision of the significance,but also the choice of the modality.