Construal Mechanism Of The Ambiguity Of The Chinese Adverb Yiqi

Ambiguity is a widely existing phenomenon in language use.In the 1980s,Chinese grammar has already started the studies on the ambiguous phenomena of Chinese adverbs.Collaborative adverbs have not been studied much in the studies of modern Chinese adverbs,and the studies on ambiguity of them are even less.Thus,this thesis studies the ambiguity phenomena of the collaborative adverb yiqi.There are three common meanings of yiqi,including Meaning₁ referring to“in the same place”which is a noun;Meaning₂ referring to“at the same time”and Meaning3 referring to the“commonness”are adverbs.It is known from the linguistic data that Meaning₂ and Meaning₃ as adverbs are much more common and prominent.Therefore,this thesis mainly studies the ambiguity of yiqi when it is used as an adverb,sums up the rules of the ambiguity of it and discusses the construal mechanism behind these ambiguous phenomena.This thesis reviews previous studies on the ambiguity of adverbs at first.The author finds that most of studies are done in the semantic and pragmatic layers.While previous studies on the ambiguity from the cognitive perspective are less.Then,this thesis reviews the previous studies on the word yiqi which is done from the part of speech,subcategory of it,etc.This thesis takes the collaborative adverb yiqi as the research object to study the ambiguous phenomena of it and to figure out the construal mechanism of ambiguity of it.Based on that,the author proposes three research questions:What are the semantic characteristics of the collaborative adverb yiqi?????What are the syntactic features of the collaborative adverb yiqi making ambiguity?What's the construal mechanism of the ambiguity of the collaborative adverb yiqi?Cognitive Grammar is the most developed linguistic theoretical model and has the greatest impact in the development of cognitive linguistics?Evans,2009:468?.The analysis of cognitive grammar is based on construal,which is the cognitive ability to conceptualize the same scene with alternative method,including specificity,focusing,prominence and perspective.This thesis studies the ambiguity of the collaborative adverb yiqi from the perspective of cognitive grammar.It gets 98,574 sentences of yiqi in total from CCL and online corpus,selecting 2,000 sentences at random as linguistic data,and finds out ambiguous sentences with the semantic profile and syntactic features of yiqi.This thesis studies the ambiguity of yiqi with literature review method,data analysis method as well as qualitative analysis method.According to the types of sentences in which yiqi makes ambiguity,the author summarizes the following two syntactic features:N+V+N+yiqi+VP and N+yiqi+VP.It can be seen that the main reasons of ambiguity are the collaborative characteristics and the semantic profile of yiqi through analyzing its syntactic features,which can be construed that its semantic profile mainly refers to the nominal components which is plural?either in form or meaning?before it.When the components before yiqi are equal to or greater than two or the scope of N is uncertain,that is,from different observing perspectives,when the scope or the direction of the semantic profile of yiqi is unsure,ambiguity appears.There are two major contributions of this thesis:first,the thesis studies the ambiguity of the collaborative adverb yiqi from cognitive grammar perspective,which expands the research scope of cognitive linguistics;second,the thesis discusses the construal mechanism of the ambiguity generated by the collaborative adverb yiqi,which paves the way to the future studies on how to eliminate ambiguities of yiqi and plays a great role in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.