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A Study on the function and Emphatic Construction of Modern Chinese Adverb “都”

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2016, (40), pp.31-48
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2016..40.002
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : February 28, 2016

Kim, Jong hyuk 1

1대전대학교

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ABSTRACT

The modern Chinese adverb ‘dou(都)’ has two kinds of basic meaning. The first meaning of ‘dou(都1)’, as a scope adverb, comprehensively represents actions, behaviors or properties which all entities or phenomena embraced within the defined scope have in common. The second meaning of ‘dou(都2)’ has emerged through grammaticalization during the transitional process in meaning. The main semantic function of ‘dou(都2)’ is ‘emphasis’, and it may symbolize the abnormality of a certain behavior, phenomenon or property, and may manifest a great difference between expectation and reality. ‘dou(都2)’ also shows the subjective cognition of a speaker on the volume of an object, time or degree. While ‘dou(都1)’ provides an objective description, ‘dou(都2)’ is one of the methods which shows an subjective representation. ‘dou(都2)’ not only represents the subjective view of a speaker in ‘lian(连)’ Construction in modern Chinese, but also has the same function in ‘ba(把)’ Construction and ‘bi(比)’ Construction, where, by reducing the typical disposal function of ‘ba(把)’ Construction or the comparison function of ‘bi(比)’ Construction, it expresses a variety of subtle nuances in terms of exaggeration and modification in the sentence.

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