A Study Of The Guaibude Sentence

Your mom is American, no wonder your English is so good. In thisthesis, from the perspective of sentence markers, we call this sentence the guaibudesentence; from the semantic angle, we refer to it as the wuyin sentence; from acomprehensive point of view, we call it the guaibude wuyin sentence. Theguaibude wuyin sentence includes single-cause sentences and complex sentences. Itis an extremely oralized sentence, and commonly used in daily life. In communicationwith foreign students, we see that they don’t use this sentence structure, even whenthe context is given. According to the corpus concordance, neither ontology study norlanguage teaching accorded sufficient importance to it. For example, HSK GradingStandards and Grammar Outline does not even mention guaibude from eithermorphologic or syntactic studies. According to the National Syllabus of GradedWords and Characters for Chinese Proficiency, the word guaibude belongs to thethird-grade vocabulary. Most textbooks for teaching Chinese as a foreign languagefocus only on teaching guaibude from the morphologic aspect instead of thesyntactic aspect and restrictions about structure usages. Owing to the lack ofinstruction from grammatical syllabi and textbooks, teachers don’t give enoughinformation about this sentence pattern or sometimes don’t teach it during teaching.Consequently, students seldom use this sentence structure or make many mistakeswhen using guaibude to connect sub-causes. In conclusion, this is a problem thatneeded to be solved immediately. Chinese ontology research and Chinese languageteaching complement each another. Problems encountered in language teaching willpromote intensive research in ontology study. When the results of ontology researchwere transformed into teaching achievements later, they will enhance teachingefficiency. In this thesis, first of all, we studied the guaibude sentence from Chineseontology. And then we tried to transform them into teaching achievements.This part included five aspects.First, the analysis of the structure type of the guaibude sentence. According tothe formal markers, this sentence pattern can be divided into three types-single type,combination type, and multiplex type.Second, the typicality of the guaibude sentence as one of the causation sentences was studied. According to the corpus, we discovered the frequently usedstructures as…, guaibude Guaibude,… Yuanlai…, guaibude… Guaibude…,yuanlai… Guaibude,……, guaibude (guaibude was followed by less words)Guaibude…,ganqing/yinwei/youyu/wokan… Ganqing/yinwei…, guaibude….Studying the typicality of the use of various structures in the semantic patternsprovided reasons for graded-teaching in Chinese language teaching.Third, the syntactic and semantic features of the guaibude sentence patternwere considered. The guaibude sentence expressed the meaning of suddenrealization (knowing the reasons for particular phenomena and no longer feelingconfused about them), focusing on the description of the process of realization (theprocess of waking up). Because of the meaning of this sentence structure, theresult-cause was significantly used. From semantics, result-cause mainly deliveredevents that might have been puzzling to the addressors, such as something that didn’tmake sense, was exaggerated, frequently occurred, or was abruptly changed.Sometimes, result-cause can be other events garnered the attention or notice of theaddressors because of the appearance of the new information. From the nature of theinformation then received, the result-cause was attributed to certain existing facts, orat least something that was sure to happen during the statement. From the nature ofthe events, the result-cause was some state (or behavior) that couldn’t be controlled bythe addressors. Moreover, the guaibude sentence structure represented features ofsubjectivity and immediacy. The guaibude sentence structure was often used indeclarative and interrogative sentences.Fourth, the pragmatics analysis of the guaibude sentence was considered. Thissentence pattern was often used in spoken Chinese; in communication, it was oftenused in dialogues. In context, it can cause topic-turning; in communication, it canconvey implications.Fifth, there were ways to distinguish the guaibude sentence from generalcausation sentences. Generally speaking, the main differences lay in the syntactic/semantic features and cognitive domain of the sentence patterns. Concerning thecause-cause, this aspect of the guaibude sentence represented new information,taking up the front position on the syntactic structures. Concerning the result-cause,this factor mainly conveyed old information, taking up the back position on thesyntactic structure. Concerning the relationship between cause-cause and the result-cause, it was implicated in the guaibude sentence, indicating chronologicalorder.Based on the achievements from ontology research, this thesis providedsuggestions about teaching strategies. The analysis of the teaching strategies of theguaibude sentence considered four areas.First, the description of the guaibude sentence we get from syllabi andtextbooks. By summarizing the research status of the guaibude sentence of syllabiand textbooks, we can see the problems that existed in teaching.Second, the analysis of usage errors related to the guaibude sentence wasconsidered. By analyzing students’ error corpus, we can make sure of the contentsprone to errors, which are the focus of the teaching.Third, the classification of the guaibude sentence in teaching was analyzed.Based on the ontology research, we provided the suggestions for classified teaching,in order to teach all the structures of guaibude sentences gradually.Fourth, we considered designation of teaching. Using contextual teaching, wetried to give students perceptions about the guaibude sentence. Then by contrastiveteaching, we compared the guaibude sentence with the general causation sentence,allowing students to perceive differences between them and master the correct way ofusing the guaibude sentence. Finally, the features of the guaibude sentence weresummarized, assigning regular patterns to the components of guaibude sentences, aswell as semantic requirements.