부정문에서 어기부사 ‘就’와 ‘才’의 화용 기능에 관한 대조 연구

Abstract

This paper studied the differences between ‘jiu’ and ‘cai’ in the negative sentences from the view point of pragmatics. The adverbs ‘jiu’ and ‘cai’ are very often used by Chinese speakers, and in negative sentences, these two adverbs represent emphasis. ‘Jiu’ tends to be used with ‘le’ and ‘cai’ with ‘ne’. Both adverbs show the speaker’s emphasis but the pragmatic functional differences in negative sentences. This paper analyzed several corpus data and compared the difference in pragmatics between ‘jiu’ and ‘cai’. Through the analysis, this paper confirmed their ability to contradict each other even though they show the speaker’s subjectivity. 'Jiu' indicates that either the start or end time of an event is earlier than the speaker expected. For this reason, ‘jiu’ has the function of ‘news reporting’ with ‘le’. This can also be applied to the ‘emphasis’ usage. ‘Jiu’ unilaterally conveys the speaker’s thoughts to the listener. On the other hand, ‘cai’ is not worthy for ‘news reporting’ because either the start or end time of an event has passed earlier than the speaker expected. In general, ‘cai’ combines with ‘ne’ to gain sympathy from the listener. As such, when a Chinese speaker wants to convey his position, he tends to choose either ‘jiu’ or ‘cai’ according to his purpose of utterance.