A Study of Chinese Tone System in A Reply to Su Wu
Yuqi, or termed Chinese tone system in a broad sense, means differently from both mood and modality in English. It not only refers to the way of speaking, such as interrogative and imperative, but also carries the speakers own attitudes toward the utterance, which is usually called Kouqi in Chinese. Analyses of A Reply to Su Wu show that Chinese tone system can be studied at four levels. Ways including intoanation, rhythm, lexical devices, syntactic rhetorical devices, particular sentence patterns and discourse organization may all contribute to the realization of a tone.
tone system chinese rhetorical device mood modality
XIA Dengshan
Foreign Languages Department, Tsinghua University
国际会议
The 36th International Systemic Functional Congress(第36届国际系统功能语言学大会暨第十一届全国功能语言学研讨会ISFC36)
北京
英文
347-350
2009-07-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）