Research On The Construction Of "Da X De"

The construction “Da X De” is an abstract and a summary from the expresion of “da qingzao de”? “da baitian de”?“da guonian de”?“da dongtian de” in contemporary Chinese language.In contemporary Chinese language,the construction “Da X De” can be used to express objective time and subjective feelings of speakers.This paper researches the construction “Da X De” in contemporary Chinese language based on construction grammar and metaphorical cognition theory,comprehensively and systematically analyzes the construction “Da X De”.This paper focuses on the composition,semantics,pragmatics,cognitive style and related expressions of the construction “Da X De” as follows:The first chapter: Introduction.This chapter introduces the research origin,object,reviews,ideas and methods,research significance and main innovation,corpus and related instructions.The first chapter reviews research status of the construction “Da X De”,and definites the contents and methods of this paper on the whole.The second chapter: Composition of the construction “Da X De”.This chapter reseaches on “X”?“da” and “de”.This part analyzes semantic types and constraints of “X”.“X” has six semantic types: time and a period,date and week,holidays and festivals,season and weather,distance,a noun refers to a person.“X” possesses such nature: attribute remarkableness,cognitive remarkableness,subjectivity,tradition,and influenced by writing style and dialect.This part analyzes property of “da”,syntactic function and semantic evolution of “da”,and asymmetry of “da/xiao”.We think “da” is an adjective,which used to sress something important.The semantic evolution of “da” has experienced a long process,projecting from spatial domain to time domain,so “da” becomes a function component.This part also analyzes syntactic function and law of appear and disappear of “de”.We think “de” is a mark word used to highlight a certain state.Appear and disappear of “de” forms a continuum: Disappear——Appear Or Disappear——Appear.The third chapter: The semantic research on the construction “Da X De”.This chapter reseaches on the semantic of the construction “Da X De”,and interaction between the construction meaning and lexical meaning.The construction “Da X De” expresses a person should or should not do something in a period in the psychological cognition of the speaker,and express blame,suggestion,comments,complaints and other feelings of the speaker.Besides,this chapter researches on interaction between the construction meaning and lexical meaning.The fourth chapter: The pragmatic research on the construction “Da X De”.This chapter reseaches on textual function?pragmatic environment?purpose and effect of the construction “Da X De”.There are two kinds of subsequent sentences of the construction “Da X De”: parallel connection and reverse connection.The construction “Da X De” matching with subsequent sentence follows the speaker “library actions” of psychological cognition.The speaker uses “Da X De” as the presuppose of pragmatics,to state objective facts and express the speaker's feelings or ask for listener to take some actions.The discourse function of the construction “Da X De” is discourse coherence and presuppose of pragmatics.The pragmatic effect of the construction “Da X De” is clarifying the facts and expressing comments,suggetion,blame,complaints,and command.The fifth chapter: Cognitive interpretation and related expressions of the construction “Da X De”.This chapter reseaches on cultural cognition and cognitive metaphor of the construction “Da X De”,and “Da X Di”?“Yi Da X(De)”?“Zhe Da X(De)”.The construction “Da X De” is closely related to social psychology and culture,“Da X De” has experienced a long process,projecting from time domain to the domain of subjective feelings.In addition,this part also analyzes mixture of “de” and “di”,“yi” stresses something important,and “zhe” means strong instructions.The sixth chapter: Conclusion and prospects.This chapter summarizes the main work of this paper,the main research ideas,the innovation and deficiencies and prospects.