Linguistic Temporality, Logical Meaning and Narrative Perspectives: Adverbs /zai/ and /you/ in Modern Standard Chinese
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| Title | Linguistic Temporality, Logical Meaning and Narrative Perspectives: Adverbs /zai/ and /you/ in Modern Standard Chinese |
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| Abstract | In this paper is presented an inquiry into some aspects of the meaning and usage of two temporal adverbs zai (再) and you (又) in Modern Standard Chinese. A decompositional analysis of the semantic encoding of the adverbs is conducted, aiming to better explain their recorded differences in usage. First, a sketch of some of the fundamental features of linguistic temporality is provided in order to model the structure of temporal semantic information encoded in the adverbs. Non-temporal (logical) meaning such as assertion and inference is also shown to be an important aspect of the semantic content of the adverbs. Adverbs zai and you are shown to encode the same semantic content except for a difference in viewpoint; the first being prospective, the second retrospective. Concrete linguistic examples reflecting the intrinsic semantic encoding of the adverbs are raised and discussed. It is then argued that through combining the decompositional analysis with ideas concerning conceptual analogy, some issues raised by Lu and Ma (1999) regarding the usage of zai and you in past and future settings may be resolved. -----Članek prouči nekatere pomene in načine uporabe časovnih prislovov zai (再) in you (又) v sodobni standardni kitajščini. Za boljše razumevanje razlik v uporabi služi dekompozicijska analiza semantičnih oznak prislovov. Avtor najprej na kratko predstavi osnovne značilnosti izražanja časa v jeziku, na podlagi česar izdela strukturo semantičnih informacij o času, ki jih nosijo prislovi. Tudi ne-časovni (logični) pomeni, kot sta na primer trditev (assertion) in sklepanje (inference), so se izkazali za pomemben del opisa semantike prislovov. Avtor pokaže, da prislova zai in you nosita iste semantične informacije in da je razlika med njima le v pogledu na situacijo – prvi je prospektiven in slednji retrospektiven. Članek v nadaljevanju izpostavi in prouči dejanske primere, ki odražajo notranje semantične zančilnosti prislovov. Nazadnje avtor pokaže, da je s kombinacijo dekompozicijske analize in idej o konceptualni analogiji mogoče razložiti nekatera vprašanja, ki sta jih v zvezi z uporabo prislovov zai in you v preteklih in prihodnjih situacijah že izpostavila Lu and Ma (1999). |
| Publisher | Faculty of Arts |
| Date | 2011-10-20 |
| Source | Acta Linguistica Asiatica Vol 1, No 2 (2011) |
| Rights | Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |