On the Study of Chinese Double-false Counterfactual Conditionals
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.287How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Chinese; double-false counterfactual conditionals; dynamic semantic; pragmatic analysis
- Abstract
The double-false counterfactual conditional is a special category of counterfactual conditionals with particular semantic and pragmatic features which has not been singled out from counterfactual conditionals in Chinese. This paper mainly aims to research the semantics of Chinese double-false counterfactual conditionals whose protasis and apodosis both being false from the perspective from traditional static semantics theory, material implication theory, strict implication theory, coexistence theory and modern dynamic semantics theory. This paper also studies the pragmatic function of Chinese double-false counterfactual conditionals. Both modern and ancient Chinese and English sentences from BCC corpus are compared in this paper in order to testify the particular function of double-false counterfactual conditionals which should be categorized as a type in Chinese. By the analysis from the respective of semantics and pragmatics, the stressed content, emotions and expression characteristics are obtained. The counterfactual conditional sentence is a special form of logical expression and sentiment expression, while the Chinese double-false counterfactual conditionals are not only logically emphasized, but also has the characteristics of exclusive argumentation, which has its unique research value.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yujing Yang PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/17 TI - On the Study of Chinese Double-false Counterfactual Conditionals BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1553 EP - 1563 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.287 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.287 ID - Yang2022 ER -