DOI: 10.5176/2251-2853_2.1.92
Authors: Meixia Li, Aihui Jiao
Abstract:
Logical resultative formulae refer to the formularized expressions denoting causal/resultative relations between two situations or events. In Chinese such expressions as yinwei… suoyi (因为/because…所以/so), yuanyinshi (原因是/The
reason is…)， jinran…jiu(既然/ since…就/then), etc. are widely used cases. These expressions frequently serve as the bridge linking two clauses; yet in communication they do not just fulfill conjunction functions, instead they convey the addresser’s attitudinal meaning, namely semantic prosody. However, up to now, no research has been done concerning semantic prosodies of Chinese logical resultative formulae. Thus, with the help of corpus-assisted discourse analysis approach, the present article attempts to do a research on semantic prosodies of Chinese logical resultative formulae so that we can avoid misusing these expressions while expressing cause and effect relations in Chinese.
Keywords: Chinese logical resultative formulae, collocation, collocabilty, semantic prosody, a corpus-assisted discourse analysis
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