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ISSN : 1229-9618(Print)
ISSN : 2671-7506(Online)
Chinese Studies Vol.82 pp.193-210
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14378/KACS.2023.82.82.9

Function and Mechanism of the Implicit Negation of “xie xie”

He Qian*, Yuan Li-Qiu**, Lim Soo-Kyung***
*四川大学文学与新闻学院应用语言学与国际中文教育教研室助理研究员
**通讯作者。兴义民族师范学院文学与传媒学院教师
***参与作者。延世大学校中国研究院专职研究员

Abstract

In networking, social media and other occasions, some words with positive meanings will derive from the expression of negative emotions or evaluation. “Xiexie” has developed a use to express negative emotions or comments in social media and other contexts. This paper holds that this new usage belongs to implicit negation, which is essentially a false politeness strategy used to highlight the speaker’s subjective feelings and achieve some indirect speech act. Based on the corpus, this paper analyzes the structural characteristics of “xiexie”, and discusses its pragmatic function and evolutionary mechanism. From the perspective of speech act, this paper summarizes the pragmatic functions of this kind of “xiexie”, which can be roughly established into three categories: signaling function, cathartic function and teasing function. The evolutionary mechanism of negative emotion or evaluation is false politeness strategy and communicative subjectivity. The study of the implicit negative usage of “xiexie” provides a new Angle for the study of a class of words that indicate negative emotion or evaluation with positive meaning in communication.

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