On Exclamatory Sentences In Modern Chinese

The dissertation, on the basis of the speech materials with 4 million characters, targets at the exclamatory sentences in modern Chinese(ESMC).And it is composed of 7 parts, one part for introduction to the present study of exclamatory sentences ,one part for further discussion and five parts for practical analysis of the item.The Introduction. It consists 2 sections. The first section mainly gives some comments on the present situation about the study of Chinese exclamatory sentences,including the general viewpoints of conception of Chinese exclamatory sentences, the standard to judge a sentence to be an exclamatory sentence or not and some questions not to be answered in the present study of the exclamatory sentences in modern Chinese. and the second section mainly introduces the linguistic theories and research method of this dissertation to analyse the exclamatory sentences and etc.Chapter â…  The Property, Features and Extensions of ESMC. It contains 3 sections. This chapter first states the properties of ESMC as follows: the exclamatory sentence is the unique sentence, in communication, to take how to express the speaker' s emotions as its main function.Then it describes the prominent features in syntactic structure, emotional meaning and practical application. And at last it makes a comment that the declarative sentence is used to describe facts, or things in real life ; the interrogative sentence is used mianly to ask questions or to obtain some information from the listeners ; and the imperative sentence is used to pass some requests or certain orders to the listeners ; and the phatic sentence is used mianly to express the general formative politeness of people in communication. Thus ,non of them ,is the realy the true exclamatory sentence in strict level.Chapter â…¡ Aspects of Emotional Focus in ESMC. It is made up of 2 sections.This chapter mainly deals with two aspects of emotional focus in ESMC, the representation of emotional focus and its appearance, such as semantic manner to contain focus of emotions ,surface construction to express meaning of emotions and main features of contents of emotions of an exclamatory sentence . At first,it analyses the representationof emotional focus ,that is to say ,the emotioal focus can be represented in form of man' s static characteristics and behaviour,things and affairs.and the emotional focus can be substituted by two kinds of words with active meaning or passive meaning. Then,it describes the lexical and syntactic features of words to represent emotional focus.Chapter HI On Some Adverbs and Interjections to Mark Emotional Focus.This chapter first gives a detailed description for some typical adverbs to mark emotional focus,suchas"tai(;fc), zhen(JC), hao(0)> duo(ï¿¡)s ke (nT)"and "ji($^ touflt), si(^E) > huai(ï¿¡F)" <> Then,with a basic classification of interjections by meaning, it makes a thorough analysis on some interjections from lexical features and syntactic functions to emotional meaning and pragmatic application,and it particularly states that.only the interjections with emotional meaning ,not the phatic interjection,can be applicated to exclamatory sentences.Chapter IV Contrastive Study of the Exclamatory Sentences Between Chinese and English.This chapter, with the methodology of contrastive lingustics.t makes some comprehensive description on the similarities and distinctions of exclamamtory sentences between Chinese and English from syntactic formation, and emotional presentation to practic application.such as ,the different standard to define a sentence to be an exclamatory sentence or not, the typical marks to show emotions of the exclamatory sentences, and the clear differences in syntactic functions and etc.Chapter V The Creation of Emotions and Application Of Chinese Excalamatory Sentences.This chapter first probes into the mechanism of emotions of mankinds: man's emotions are stimulated by some factors, and the esthesia plays an important role between emotional focus and the factors, then it states that there are some differences between emotions stimulated by same factor because of different subjunctive judging standard, background knowledge and method of cognitons to emotions, and it draws a conclusion that the exclamatory sentence bearing the function to transmit mainly emotional meaning is to satisfy the need of people to express emotions in mutual language communication,that is to say, expression of emotions first, then a sentence to bear the function. At last it makes a brief analysis on the information structure of exclamatory sentences and its features and other functions in practicdiscourse. Especially the paper states that the function of a sentence to express or pass some emotions, in communication, is not the unique function of an exclamatory sentence, that is to say, the function of passing emotions.in an exclamatory sentence ,is just much more clear ,comparason to other sentences such as an imperative sentence, an interrogative sentence, a declarative sentence and a phatic sentence and etc.Further Discussion .This section gives a brief summary for the whole dissertation, that is to say, the progresses which have been made in this study of exclamatory sentence of modern Chinese and some points which should be perfected more in later study on this item.