The Study Of Modal Particles In Qi Dong Dialect Of Hunan Province

Modal is an important feature of Chinese, it plays a very important role in people’s communicative expression because of the rich, distinguished and outstanding features. Different dialects have different modal system, so dialect has a great research value of the subject. This paper mainly investigated the modal particles of the QiDong dialect, taked the often used modal particles of people’s daily communication as the research object, strive to pursue full and detailed description of synchronic plane. And then sort out a more complete dialect of QiDong and classified it according to its characteristics. Based on the structure of the sentence describing the features modal analysis,this thesis aims to lay a foundation for further study of QiDong dialect grammar, and deepen the research achievements of Hunan dialect.The thesis has a total of five parts:Part Ⅰ:Introduce the geographical, cultural circumstances and history of QiDong, QiDong dialect research survey, modal and QiDong dialect past and present. And then elaborate the research purpose, meaning and methods of this article.Part Ⅱ:Classify the dialect of QiDong. This chapter is basically a collection of all the dialects in QiDong modal, a total of 25. According to the function and significance of modal classified as aspect modal, modality modal and interrogative modal. There are five aspect modals including“个、了、过、嗟1、看1”,fifteen modality modals including"味、唠、嘛、然、昂、嘞1、怕、哎、啰、得、好2、嗟2、看2、去了、个话"and five interrogative modals including "么、啊、嘞2、好2、哈" ". For each type of tone expressed by the word function and meaning are an example for a more detailed discussion.Part III:The use of collocation of modal particles in QiDong dialect. Through the investigate of the along usage of modal particles in QiDong dialect,this chapter found that the conjunction of Modal in QiDong was rich, which include both two-used modal particles and three-used modal particles. There are seven situations of conjunction which can be used successively:two of aspect modal particles use together, aspect modal particle and modality modal particle use together,the aspect modal particle and interrogative modal particle use together,two of modality modal particle use together, the modality modal particle and interrogative modal particle use together,two of aspect modal particle and interrogative modal particle use together,the aspect modal particle and modality modal particle and interrogative modal particle use togetherPart IV:The distribution of modal particle in QiDong dialect. The distribution include in a sentence and at the end of a sentence. All the modal particles in QiDong dialect can be used at the end of the sentence, while a few can be in the sentence (in front of sentence, between similar sentence and at the end of the previous clause), including’’啊、嘞1、哎、唠、嘛、个话”.The common function of these modal particles in the sentence is for temporary.PartVI:Conclusion. This section is a summary of the whole chapter Based on the study of foregoing, this part depicts the basic features QiDong dialect.