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A cognitive study on indirect negation of “xiang duo le(想多了)”

Su Dan 1 LEE,WOO-CHEOL 2

1경북대학교 중어중문학과
2경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

“Xiang duo le(想多了)” in Chinese usually means having an unnecessary or superfluous idea. In recent years , a new linguistic phenomenon has emerged in the spoken Chinese language and even the official media, indicating that there is an indirect negation of “xiang duo le(想多了)”. “xiang duo le(想多了)”how to express indirect negation in context, what kind of negative meaning it can express, what kind of characteristics it has, and what the generation mechanism and motivation of such indirect negation are are the main issues discussed in this paper. Based on the phenomenon of “xiang duo le(想多了)” to express indirect negation, this paper analyzes the deep meaning of “xiang duo le(想多了)” and finds that it can express the negative meaning of opposition, rejection, denial and impossibility, which constitute the negative way of “xiang duo le(想多了)”. When it expresses negation, there are no negative words in the language table, non-propositional content of the negative object, disappearance of the propositional meaning and prominent features of the modality. “xiang duo le(想多了)” expresses negation as a reflection of human cognition, which is affected by evaluation and subjectivity, politeness strategy, metacognitive monitoring and idealized cognitive model. The phenomenon of “xiang duo le(想多了)” form negation reflects that indirect negation is a language strategy under the influence of human cognitive mechanism.

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