ISSN : 1229-9618(Print)
ISSN : 2671-7506(Online)
ISSN : 2671-7506(Online)
Chinese Studies Vol.82 pp.1-17
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14378/KACS.2023.82.82.1
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14378/KACS.2023.82.82.1
A Study on the Foot in Chinese Slogan
Abstract
Slogan is the special sentence which has an intention of propaganda and agitation. When these kinds of slogans are uttered actually, there is a tendency that feet are formed according to syntactic structure of slogans, rather than having natural forms by force. However, 4 syllable slogans formed natural foot indiscriminately, such as (2#2), for syntactic structure is simple in relative. These kinds of feet parsing are derived from the hierarchy as ‘NoSTR, Ft-BIN > Ft-Bound > Congruence > All-Ft-L’ among the constraints, which are ‘Ft-Bin and Ft-Bound: restricting the numbers of syllables in feet’, ‘NoSTR; limitation on the separation in lexical word’, ‘Congruence: binding immediate constituents into one foot’, and ‘All-Ft-L: forming foot from left to right in prosodic words, phrases, and etc.’. But there are exceptions as like: parsing 1 syllable independent components as independent foot, for the hierarchy among the constraints ‘NoSTR, Congruence > Ft-Bound > Ft-BIN, All-Ft-L’; forming natural feet in one 7 syllables slogan ‘不并 肩来不携手’ by force, because of changing the hierarchy among the constraints into ‘Ft-BIN, Ft-Bound > All-Ft-L > NoSTR, Congruence’.