Ideophonic reduplication of content words in Mandarin Chinese: A category shift and its typological background

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale Pub Date : 2012-01-01 DOI:10.1163/1960602812X00023

Liu Danqing

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Ideophonic reduplication is a special type of reduplication in Mandarin Chinese. By repeating the mere sounds of a word or expression taken from the linguistic context, it turns content words into temporary ideophones. I argue that this operation highlights the signifiant (the acoustic form) and downplays the signifie (the concept referring to the subject in reality) of the reduplicated segments. This type of reduplication differs from pragmatic repetition, and it has a number of distinctive characteristics. I argue that the development of ideophonic reduplication in Chinese is closely connected with the typological characteristics of Chinese.

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汉语实词的意音重复:范畴转移及其类型背景

表音复写是汉语普通话中一种特殊的复写形式。通过重复从语言语境中提取的单词或表达的声音，它将实义词变成临时的意指词。我认为这种操作突出了重复片段的意义(声学形式)并淡化了意义(指现实中主体的概念)。这种类型的重复不同于语用重复，它有许多独特的特点。笔者认为汉语意音重复的发展与汉语的类型学特征密切相关。

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Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： The Cahiers is an international linguistics journal whose mission is to publish new and original research on the analysis of languages of the Asian region, be they descriptive or theoretical. This clearly reflects the broad research domain of our laboratory : the Centre for Linguistic Research on East Asian Languages (CRLAO). The journal was created in 1977 by Viviane Alleton and Alain Peyraube and has been directed by three successive teams of editors, all professors based at the CRLAO in Paris. An Editorial Board, composed of scholars from around the world, assists in the reviewing process and in a consultative role.