The Semantic Categorization, Pragmatic Functions and Grammaticalization of " IF-ruguoshuo" in Chinese

• Main Authors: Chiang, Yi-Hui, 江伊惠
• Other Authors: Teng, Shou-Hsin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80161123477885485669

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 華語文教學研究所 === 99 === According to the grammaticalization paths of “shuo” , there are two paths(Su, 2002；Huang, 2010).Path one is: verb complementizer .Path two is: verb reportative marker pragmatic marker.”Ruguoshuo” is on path 1 from「want (xiangyaoshuo)」.The content meaning of “shuo” has bleached and became a complementizer. Our semantic categorization of “ruguoshuo” is based on Sweetser’s (1990) classification of conditionals.There are three domains in the categorization: causal domain,epistemic domain and pragmatic domain.Su (2005) thinks the various uses of conditionals reflect that newly-recruited meaning may be related to the prototypical meaning when the speaker’s subjective evaluation on the current speech context comes into play.The results of all the data we collected show that the speaker usually use ”ruguoshuo” to express the pragmatic meanings.”Shuo” has come to have reportative function and can also be a pragmatic marker expressing such meanings as evidentiality , subjectative and quasi counter-expectation.In our investigation , it also shows that ”ruguoshuo” is a conventional usage in metaphorical inference domain which belongs to pragmatic domain.The high frequencies means that ”ruguoshuo” is a lexicalized word in metaphorical inference domain. The grammaticalization paths of “ruguoshuo” is similar to “shuo”.According to Rosch (1973)’s prototype theory, the meaning of a lexical form is based on a single concept formation or whether it involves multiple concept formation, which entails a cognition process.”Shuo” in “ruguoshuo” come from the content meaning-to say and grammaticalizated into a functional complemetizer. Sometimes “ruguo” can be omitted and sometimes “shuo” can be omitted.