A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Comment Adjuncts with <i>Shuo</i> and <i>Speaking</i>

YANG Cai-ying; LU Xi-ying

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YANG Cai-ying, LU Xi-ying. A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Comment Adjuncts with Shuo and Speaking[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2017, 33(1): 25-32.

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YANG Cai-ying, LU Xi-ying. A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Comment Adjuncts with Shuo and Speaking[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2017, 33(1): 25-32.

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A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Comment Adjuncts with Shuo and Speaking

College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

Received Date: 2016-12-23

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There is a common independent construction with speaking, Comment Adjuncts with speaking both in English and Chinese. This paper explores English and Chinese Comment Adjunct contrastively in terms of semantic classification, semantic formation and discourse function. Chinese and English Comment Adjunct with speaking can both be classified into filed type, tenor type and mode type. They can be considered semantically as a project complex sentence, in which the adjunct as the main clause and the proposition as objective clause. Discursively, Comment Adjunct with speaking can functions as the speaker's perspective indicator and attitude engagement as well as discourse cohesion.
- Comment Adjuncts with speaking,
- perspective indicator,
- attitude engagement,
- discourse cohesion

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