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The Influence Of Modern Chinese Text Level On The Third Person Anaphora

Posted on:2021-07-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y GuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2505306119450894Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Anaphora is one of the important ways of discourse cohesion.In specific texts,the use of anaphora is often affected by many factors.Previous studies have paid more attention to grammatical role,referential form,anaphora center and other local text Factors,and there are few studies on overall factors.This article uses the overall factor of the text,the structure of the text,to study its influence on the third person pronoun anaphora.Taking the modern vernacular novel “Luotuo Xiangzi” as the corpus,it analyzes the influence of the third person pronoun anaphora from two aspects: chapter level and structure.Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis methods,the anaphora forms(pronouns,noun phrases,zero forms)of the corpus are counted quantitatively to analyze at what level the anaphora forms appear and how they are used.Foreign students have certain applications in the field of Chinese discourse and Chinese information processing.It is hoped that it can provide a valuable reference for the study of anaphora at the overall level of Chinese texts.On the one hand,the chapter level affects the third person pronoun anaphora.We divided the chapter level into four units according to the order from small to large,clause,chapter sentence,segment and chapter,and found that in different hierarchical units,the use of pronoun anaphora is different,and clause layer is used more In the zero form,pronouns or noun phrases are mostly used in textual sentences,and paragraphs are the same as textual sentences.Pronouns or noun phrases are mostly used,and noun phrases are basically used at textual level.Through corpus analysis,we find that the segment level has a great influence on the third person anaphora.On the other hand,the text structure also has an effect on the third person pronoun anaphora.This article analyzes the structure of the text from two aspects of microstructure and macrostructure,and finds that different structures have different effects on the anaphora of third-person pronouns.Microstructure: First,in terms of the relationship between sentences,the use of the pronoun “he” in sentences with different relationships betweensentences is different.Most pronouns are used as the subject in sentences,and zero-form back-references are often used between sentences.Macrostructure: From the perspective of stylistics,pronouns in narrative chapters play an important role in cohesion,especially those involving the protagonist and other characters.Pronouns are used frequently.
Keywords/Search Tags:Discourse hierarchy, Discourse structure, Third-person pronoun anaphora, Zero form
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