汉语“程度副词+名词”结构的语法转喻阐释-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

I I PAGE PAGE VI ABSTRACT In recent years, the “Degree Adverb + Noun” structure in Chinese as a new language phenomenon has emerged in increasing numbers in our lives, especially in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet. Many phrases in Chinese like “很女人”, “很中国” and “非常 生活” are widely used. In traditional grammar, this structure is regarded as ungrammatical because the adverbs tend to modify the verbs or adjectives but not nouns. However, the use of this structure does not cause misunderstanding. Instead, it can produce a novel effect of expression. This structure has aroused many scholars’ interest and the discussion of this structure has lasted for a long time. The early studies of this structure are mainly on whether this structure is grammatical, and later the scholars try to describe and explain it. Many scholars investigate this structure from different aspects such as semantics, pragmatics, cognition, etc. Though the previous studies were abundant and made us have clearer acknowledgement of “Degree Adverb + Noun” structure, few studies consider the cognitive operational process of this structure and the relationship between the cognition and the grammatical structure in “Degree Adverb + Noun” structure. In view of the previous studies, this thesis adopts the theory of grammatical metonymy to analyze the cognitive mechanism of the “Degree Adverb + Noun” structure and investigate the “Degree Adverb + Noun” structure in the operational model of grammatical metonymy proposed by the domestic scholars Wu Shuqiong and Wen Xu (吴淑琼 文旭, 2011). Based on the analysis of the data we collected, a brief classification of the degree adverbs is made and the characteristics of the degree adverbs entering into this structure are summarized. Most of the usages of degree adverbs in “Degree Adverb + Noun” structure are colloquial and the degree adverbs that can modify the nouns always tend to have high level degree. Then a detailed grammatical metonymy analysis of