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The Textual Function of ‘ye’ in Mencius

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2025, (75), pp.111-132
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2025..75.004
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : January 10, 2025
  • Accepted : February 20, 2025
  • Published : February 28, 2025

park hyang lan 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

Until now, most studies on the function of ‘也’ appearing at the end and middle of sentences in pre-qin period have been limited to discussions within individual sentences. This study analyzed ‘Mencius’ and examined how ‘也’ contributing to the composition of the text, not only in the preceding and following sentences, but also in the entire paragraph. In particular, this study paid attention to elucidating the principles that cohesively form a text by identifying its semantic relationships with other propositions. As a result, ‘也’ at the end of a sentence performed text functions such as proposition, expatiation, and inference, and at the middle of sentences performed text functions such as introduction, connection, and contrast.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.