“有点儿”后形容词感情色彩变化考察

On Emotional Color Change of “Somewhat + adjective” in Chinese

“有点儿+ 形容词”是汉语日常交际用语中常见的结构。在传统语法视角下,“有点儿”后所接形容词感情色彩绝大多为贬义或中性,如有点儿脏、有点邋遢、有点儿奇怪。而在现如今的日常交流和新媒体网络用语中,可以发现越来越多的“有点儿+褒义形容词”句式,如有点好看、有点可爱。为了考察可能引起该语言现象发生变化背后的因素,文章描写了该结构的语法语义特点,并试从语用原则、方言、汉英对比等多个角度将这一转变现象进行分析与实证。从以上三个方面来看,“有点儿+褒义形容词”这一结构的存在是有其合理性。因而对于类似的新兴语言现象最好采取宽容的态度,接受这样的语言运用现象,因为它很可能在不断发展过程中变成“约定俗成”。

“Somewhat + adjective” is a common structure in Chinese daily communication.From the perspective of traditional grammar,the emotional color of the adjectives after “a bit” is mostly derogatory or neutral.In today’s daily communication and new media network language,we can find more and more expressions of “a little + commendatory adjectives”.In order to investigate the factors that may lead to the change of the language phenomenon,this paper describes the grammatical and semantic characteristics of the structure,and tries to analyze and illustrate this change phenomenon from the perspectives of pragmatic principles,dialects and Chinese-English comparison.From the above three aspects,the existence of the structure of “somewhat + commendatory adjective” is reasonable.