A study abuout 'you-sentence' which expresses measurement and compassion in ZHU ZI YU LEI
Weiwei Li, Taewon Jang · The Journal of Society for Humanities Studies in East Asia · 2019
This paper is trying to use the method of Three Plane Theory to analyze the “you-sentence” in ZHU ZI YU LEI. And it is found that at latest in the South-Song Dynasty the “you-sentence” has had the syntactic function beyond the measuring function , that is the syntactic function of comparison. At the same time, combined with the researching method of semantics, this paper uses the method of drawing vector graph to intuitively distinguish the closely relationship between measurement and comparison. The author thinks that the syntactic function of “you-sentence” denotes “comparison” originates from the syntactic function of “measurement”. Finally, this paper analyzed the pragmatic functions of the “you-sentence” which are expressed in ZHU ZI YU LEI. And it reveals that their pragmatic functions are mainly based on the emphasis the small quantity and deep degree about the subject of comparison.