A Grammatical Study of ABAB Reduplicative Speech Act Verbs with Politeness Meaning
-- Taking “Congratulations, Congratulations” and “Come on, Come on” as Examples
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https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v20i.2343Keywords:
ABAB Reduplication; Speech Act Verb; Construction Grammar Research; Frame Semantics; Interactive Subjectivity.Abstract
Taking “congratulations, congratulations” and “come on, come on” as examples, this paper analyzes their syntactic components, semantic features, pragmatic functions, and special phenomena on the basis of corpus under the guidance of frame semantics theory and interactive subjectivity theory. ABAB reduplicated speech act verbs mostly act as independent predicates in sentences, which is mainly caused by imperative sentences and repeated emotional output of the speaker. This kind of verb has a wide range and colorful semantic characteristics, which is related to the pragmatic functions of forming different emotional colors under a specific cognitive framework.
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