Brief Introduction Of The Parenthesis In Chinese

Parenthesis, a sort of language phenomenon, has been widely studied in particular aspect, whereas it has seldom been systematically analyzed in general, especially in Chinese realm. Apparently, disagreements on the parentheses such as diversity in title, difference in definition spectrum and variety in classification etc., shall be attributed to dissimilar respects of the parentheses research and study approaches applied in history.As to the problems mentioned above, new cognition on the classification of parentheses, particularly in narrow sense, and its grammatical category has been put forward by means of the parentheses study of works of Ms. Zhang Ailing, the famous contemporary female writer in China, and clarification of the title and scope of Chinese parentheses on the basis of three-plane principle adopted in essay. Meanwhile, the comprehensive analyses on elements influencing the understandings of the parentheses shall enrich further researches into parentheses, and innovative exposition of the linguistic function of the parentheses in contemporary literature shall be beneficial to the application of the parentheses in writing.