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Modality of modern Chinese ‘ba’

JIN, JOONHWA 1

1동아방송예술대학교

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This paper considers ba in Chinese to represent modality and discusses it. A summary of these discussions is as follows. In Chinese, ‘YuQi’ should be understood as having a reactionary response to the speaker's attitude toward the listener in the context of the speech act, using the whole meaning of the sentence as the acting area. In other words, the term must be understood as a sentence pattern about the whole intention and meaning of sentence utterance, and modality should be understood as the level of the speaker’s belief in the sentence proposition or the speaker’s judgment or attitude about the real status of the proposition will be. The semantic structure of the sentence is composed of ‘[S = [P + M] × Y]’(S: sentence, P: proposition, M: modality, Y: YuQi). ‘ba’ is a modality that expresses the subjective attitude of the speaker such as [speculation], [push], [recommendation], [consent], [prompt], [suggestion], [action request]. ‘ba’, which has the meaning function of ‘[Confirmation [guess]]’, belongs to ‘epistemic modality and can be defined as’ [action request], [enforcement],[prompt], [recommendation] and have a meaning function such as ‘deontic modality’ belongs.

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