The Modern Chinese Word Structure And Language Is The Amount Of Research

Based on a functional approach and the fact that all the " shi (是) structures in Contemporary Chinese can be used to express subjectivity,this dissertation discusses mainly the pragmatic quantity-a subcategoryof the quantity category in modern cognitive linguistics. It has six chapters.The first chapter gives an introduction to the common feature that all the "shi" structures have the same function to express subjectivity, and to the theoretical background of this paper, i.e. functionalism and quantitative analyses, which is a method of cognitive approaches. Scholars have done a lot of research on quantitative category, which is mainly on semantic quantity, not on pragmatic quantity. In this paper, the "shi" structures are used as one case to study the expressions of the systemic pragmatic quantity.The second chapter is on the category of pragmatic quantity which are expressed by modality, Three "shi" structures expressing pragmatic quantity are discussed: the adverbs of degree "henshi' (很是), "zuishi" (最是) structures expressing subjectivity; the rhetoric question structure of "bushi"(不是) expressing different kinds and scales of pragmatic quantity; and the compound sentence structure of "bushi ()不是 A, jiushi (就是) B" expressing emphasizing.The third chapter deals with the subjectivity-expressing on the base of objective quantity. Five "shi" structures are discussed: the negative "bushi" (不是) structure expressing large subjective quantity; the "youdeshi" (有的是) /"duodeshi" (多的是) structure expressing large subjective quantity; the "jiushi" (就是) compound structure like "although" in English .expressing subjective quantity, and the fixed structure "yi ( 一) V+jiushi (就是) +X", expressing large subjective quantity and etc.In chapter four, we make an enquiry into a special "A shi Astructure which functions as a mean of emphasizing and euphemizing and expresses pragmatic quantity. Differences are made in pragmatic quantity expressing due to single sentence context, compound sentence context and different relations within compound sentences.And another important aspect of the "shi" structure expressing pragmatic quantity is discussed in chapter five, i.e. the focus marker of "shi"and its variable strength. And last but not least, we discuss problems not well solved and questions for further study. We also suggest that a methodological combination of pragmatic quantity research in contemporary Chinese with the systemic quantity category research in dialects be made.