Research On Mark Method Of Event In News Narrative Discourse

Based on event semantics and the theory of "boundedness-unboundedness" to define the research object, this paper explores the relationship between the signaling system and marking method of the event in the news narrative discourse. There are three questions which is mainly discussed in this paper:The first question is the definition of events. In the present,the "boundedness-unboundedness" and the semantic primitives of event are the most influenced theories,which this paper is based on to put forward two criteria to define events:one is "integrity" and "boundedness", whose semantic essence is refers to achieving endpoints or the behavior process state changes; The second is subjective cognitive boundedness.The second question is the event marking methods. According to Davidson event semantics point of view, this paper has been clear about the event is made up of action and its direct participants, and the action itself forms the core of the event. The marking methods of the action of events mainly have four kinds:the aspect marker of completion "le" to express the time end up; the restrictive adverbial which is by limiting the action behavior of the boundaries of time and space to mark of events; the predicate complement structure and two special sentence patterns (the passive sentences and "ba" sentences), which show the results of the action behavior. There are two main means of marking event participants boundedness:one is the number of phrases, the second is a fixed noun term. Among them, a fixed term is through personal pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, and proper nouns by means of three forms. They constitute the marking system of events.The third question is the characteristics of the event marking system. In the marking means of the event, the marking method of actions and the participants are interacted. The action behavior mainly represent the boundedness and integrity of events in time and space,the participants mainly represent the boundedness of events in space. And the marking method of action behavior is over the marking method of participants.