The Investigation of Synonymous Adverb Centering on “DOUSE” and “SHOSEN”
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Liu, Yao-Shien
Abstract
The aim of the research centers on the analysis of the synonymous adverbs: “DOUSE” and “SHOSEN”. In order to clarify whether these two adverbs have similarities or differences, the researcher contrasts the two adverbs on discourse level and semantic level.
The findings are as follows. First, “DOUSE” and “SHOSEN” are semantically related. Speakers would choose both adverbs to insinuate the idea of “predetermined hypothesis”. Under different conditions of the topics that proceed, both adverbs conveyed “negativity” which can be further extended to the meaning of “overlooked”, “redundant” or “relinquished”. While both adverbs applied in discourse level, they express the idea of “reasoning”, “basis” or “conclusion”.
Second, “DOUSE” and “SHOSEN” demonstrated differences in the conditions they’re being applied under different verb tense. “DOUSE”, according to the study, rarely occurs under past tense while “SHOSEN” doesn’t have such constraint. Moreover, in the combination of “DOUSE + NARA”, the researcher discovered the inseparable meaning arisen from the use of combination; the meaning of “multiple choices” is entailed in the combination. The speakers utilize this combination to suggest the idea that” the decision is made due to one’s liking” through their speech.
On the contrary, “SHOSEN” entails different semantic connotations that “DOUSE” lacks: “conclusion under certain condition” and “retrospective directivity”, in which the speakers are required to trace back to the previous context. That is, the recipients need to trace back to previous sentence or the paragraph to achieve fully understanding. Otherwise, the recipients can understand the sentence with “DOUSE” without any problem due to the fact that the meaning is fully demonstrated in the very sentence. Above are the findings that have been discovered in the thesis.
Subjects
“DOUSE”
“SHOSEN”
predetermined hypothesis
negativity
conclusion under certain condition
retrospective directivity
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