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The Comparison of "Quwang(去往)" and "Qudao(去到)" in Modern Chinese

Xie Yu-li

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In modern Chinese,both and contain the meaning of go to somewhere,which can represent a displacement process,for an example,I would like to quwang a dream world and I would like to qudao a dream world,the two sentences are both able to represent the wishes of the go to a dream world.However,in the specific use of language,there exists different degree of difference between them.In this paper,quwang and are studied from aspects of syntactic structure,semantic features and pragmatic features,in order to analysis the similarities and differences between quwangand in these three areas,then explain the general division of the usage of and in modern Chinese.

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In modern Chinese,both and contain the meaning of go to somewhere,which can represent a displacement process,for an example,I would like to quwang a dream world and I would like to qudao a dream world,the two sentences are both able to represent the wishes of the go to a dream world.However,in the specific use of language,there exists different degree of difference between them.In this paper,quwang and are studied from aspects of syntactic structure,semantic features and pragmatic features,in order to analysis the similarities and differences between quwangand in these three areas,then explain the general division of the usage of and in modern Chinese.

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In modern Chinese,both and contain the meaning of go to somewhere,which can represent a displacement process,for an example,I would like to quwang a dream world and I would like to qudao a dream world,the two sentences are both able to represent the wishes of the go to a dream world.However,in the specific use of language,there exists different degree of difference between them.In this paper,quwang and are studied from aspects of syntactic structure,semantic features and pragmatic features,in order to analysis the similarities and differences between quwangand in these three areas,then explain the general division of the usage of and in modern Chinese.

Key concepts: Dream, Meaning (existential), Original meaning, Linguistics, Order (exchange), Degree (music), Computer science, Epistemology

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