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The Analysis Of The Anaphora Structure "Personal Pronoun+a+NP"

Posted on:2014-03-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330401456639Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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This paper mainly discusses the modern Chinese "I’m a woman","you’re agrownman","he is a poor beggar"and so on, the structure can be summarized as:"PersonalPronoun+a NP". The structure is conposed of the "personal pronoun" and "a NP" twocomplex finger language.i The structure of "Personal Pronoun+NP" s mainly used todo a subject in a sentence, a few of them can also be used as the object of a verb orpreposition, also have a few used as subject."Personal Pronoun+a NP" belongs to the anaphora structure, and then weanalyzed the "composition of Pronoun+a NP", the "a" is not meaning of assurance,but a virtual component, the number of significant is weakened, and its referencefunction strengthens day by day, we will define it as "A(2)", NP is a noun or nounphrase and its semantic features is summarized as follows:[+person、+generic、prominent、cultural meaning、subjective color]. Through our investigation discovery, the"Personal Pronoun+a NP" structure is in reference to others, to make fun ofrighteousness, ridicule, scorn or contempt of righteousness,as in referring to himself, itsaid a modest meaning even inferiority, the whole structure tend to express societyopinion to individual and others’ understanding and evaluation, Constructional meaningof "Personal Pronoun+a NP", they can be simply summarized as "X as NP, X have theconditions and quality of NP". We use the method to extract the sample to surveye theconstitutive expression tendency, the speaker adopts the structure to express a sense ofcontradiction probability than reasonable smooth bearing structure, the overallconstruction tend to express a negative meaning, it combines the criticism, blame, lightas demeaning ridicule, modesty,, a variety of meaning, and in the reference subject alsohas powerful function of review, it reflects the speaker’s subjective, penetration of thespeaker’s strong subjective feelings.The constructions used to express negation and refuting others in the context, thecontext makes the speaker is unsatisfied and usually has unexpected emotions, but alsowith a detailed argumentation means. The structure of "Personal Pronoun+a NP"mainly in the interview context, the whole structure is mainly used to sigh andidentity and behavior who have for some people. Unity between grammatical, semantic and pragmatic restrict each other in the whole complex analysis process of thestructure "Personal Pronoun+a NP", the structure of "Personal Pronoun+NP" is a stillevolving structure, it is used for the spoken language, but using language is developingand changing, the structure of "personal pronoun+a NP" semantics, grammar,pragmatics is in the changing and update process, we must look at the problem indynamic development vision,...
Keywords/Search Tags:Pronoun+a NP, syntax semantic pragmatic related constructions
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