A Pragma-Cognitive Study Of Chinese Resumptive Construction "PN" And "NP"

Chinese PN and NP resumptive constructions are composed of personalpronoun (P for short) and personal noun (N for short), both of which have the samereference. The components P and N can form two resumptive constructions, the firstone is "Pronoun+Noun"(PN for short), for example,"ta lia ren (他俩人)","zanlaobaixing (�'�老百姓)","renjia Erya (人家二丫)"; the second one is "Noun+Pronoun"(NP for short), for example,"Zhang San wo (张三我)","laorenjia ta (老人家她)". Most of the present studies on these constructions are briefly mentionedwhen talking of deixis. Some of them have an eye for these constructions from thesemantic, syntactic and pragmatic perspective. Up to now, there have been scarcelyresearches on resumptive construction from the cognitive perspective.This paper studies Chinese PN and NP resumptive construction from apragma-cognitive perspective based on the data collected from Corpus of ChineseLanguage collected by Chinese Language Research Center of Peking University(CCL for short), as well as the novel Liang Jian and Jia. This paper analyses thephonological, structural, and syntactic features of resumptive construction, classifiesthem and tries to study the mechanism of the production of pragmatic effect. Hereare two major findings of this study:Firstly, we find that N plays a determinative role in Chinese PN and NPresumptive construction; it is the essential element which makes Chinese NP and PNconstruction resumptive construction rather than modifier-head construction.Secondly, this paper first applies economy principle, pragmatic empathy andde-empathy and iconicity principles to the analysis of production mechanism ofChinese resumptive construction NP’s and PN’s pragmatic meaning.