语法化环境理论视角下话语标记“别说”探究

초록

In modern Chinese, “Bie Shuo(别说)” has different properties, semantics and functional characteristics. This paper aims to reanalyze the origin, grammatical evolution and evolution mechanism of the usage of “Bie Shuo(别说)” discourse markers. This paper uses the grammaticalized context theory of Heine(2002) and Diewald(2002) to investigate the source, evolution process and evolution mechanism of “Bie Shuo(别说)” discourse markers based on the environmental model. The research shows that the evolution of “Bie Shuo(别说)” mainly goes through four stages, namely “initial context”, “critical context”, “switch context” and “conventionalization”. The syntactic and pragmatic environment of each stage is different. Metaphorical mechanism, re-analysis and pragmatic inference, subjectification and intersubjectification, absorption of context and semantic contamination are the main mechanisms promoting grammaticization in each stage. After the above stages, “Bie Shuo(别说)” eventually evolved into an unexpected marker, marking the speaker’s new & different viewpoint and reminding the speaker to pay attention to receiving the following “unexpected information”. We describe the characteristics of different synchronic uses of “Bie Shuo(别说)” and compare the functional characteristics of three synchronic variants of discourse. The research shows that the discourse function of “Bie Shuo(别说)” changes from propositional function to expression function and finally to textual function.

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