Acknowledgments At the point of finishing my thesis, I’d like to express my sincere thanks to all those who have lent me hands in the course of my writing this paper.
First of all, I'd like to take this opportunity to show my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, associate professor Mrs. Miao, who gave me constant guidance and encouragement in the process of my writing. She offered me much considerable and constructive advice, practical and profound suggestions. She has tried her best to improve my thesis. Without her support and help, the completion of the present thesis would be impossible.35959
Secondly, as a student of the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Institute of Technology, I feel very fortunate and proud, because all my professors and teachers are affable and knowledgeable. They gave me a lot of careful and generous help. I want to give my whole-hearted thanks to all of them. I am also grateful to my classmates and roommates for their encouragement, support, comments and wise advice.
Lastly, I wish to devote this paper to my parents for their everlasting dedication that they have shown since I was just a little child.
Abstract In linguistics, grammaticalization is a process of language change by which words representing objects and actions transform to become grammatical markers. Grammaticalization is a powerful aspect of language, as it creates new function words within language. However, grammaticalization not only occurs in official languages such as English, Mandarin, but also occurs in dialects. In this study, the Shanghai dialect will be used as the research object. Some typical examples will be listed and combined with the theories of grammaticalization in order to explore the process of grammaticalization of some discourse in which impolite connotations arise and to disclose the motivation behind the changes.
The paper falls into six parts. The first part serves as an introduction. The second part aims at elaborating the issues of grammaticalization and politeness. The third part will analyze how metaphor plays the role in the progress of the grammaticalization of the phrases in spoken Shanghai dialect. The fourth part probes into morphological changes of the phrases. The fifth part will analyze the motivation of the grammaticalization of the phrases. The sixth part functions as a conclusion.
Key Words: grammaticalization, impoliteness, Shanghai dialect
摘要在语言学中，语法化是指一个原本表示对象和动作的单词逐渐演变成语法标记的过程。语法化是语言发展的强大推动力量，它创造出了语言中新的功能词汇。然而语法化不仅发生在英语和普通话这些官方语言之中，同样也会发生在方言之中。本篇论文将上海话作为研究对象，通过列举一些例子并结合语法化研究理论，探究上海话中某些不礼貌话语的语法化过程以及其发生语法化的动因。
本篇毕业论文共分为751部分。第一部分是导入。第二部分阐述了语法化和礼貌。第三部分分析隐喻是如何影响上海话中不礼貌话语的语法化。第四部分探究这些话语的形态句法变化。第五部分分析这些话语产生语法化的动因。第751部分是结论。
关键词：语法化，不礼貌，上海话
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements……i
Abstract………………………ii
摘要………..iii
1 Introduction 1
2 Grammaticalization and Politeness 3
2.1 Views of Grammaticalization 3
2.2 Politeness and Impoliteness 4
2.3 Mechanisms of Grammaticalization5
3 Metaphoric Factors in the Grammaticalization of Impolite Discourse in Vernacular Shanghai Dialect 7
3.1 qiē fá xiáo 切伐消 can’t bear 7
3.2 qiē bāo 切饱 enough 8 上海话中不礼貌话语的语法化:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_34194.html