THI 의 의미론적 논법

The logical - semantic of the word THI

After giving a brief review of the different ideas of the Vietnamese linguists about the word THI, the author presents his judgment about this word as the followings: 1. First as all, the word THI is a conjunction in the structure of the complex sentences which indicates the relationship between condition and result. This structure is a kind of cause – effect one which reflects structure of logic statement “a→b”. So, we could apply the inferences of propositional logic to recognize the implication of the sentences which includes the word thi. The most useful inferences are: 2. As a follow-up to the inferences, author presents a general method to investigate the implications in the complex sentences which include the structure of “neu …thi”. After that, with a series examples, the author demonstrates indirect speech acts of these complex sentences as follows: 3. The author uses the inferences MP, MT, MV for investigating the pragmatic implication of the pair utterances of conversation. This pragmatic implication “conceals” in the later utterance which includes the word THI and indicates indirect speech acts such as affirmation, assessment, announcement, refusal, advice... Examples: 4. Idioms with the word THI In conversation, there are utterances expressing speech acts which become the particular language patterns. A first speech act leads to second speech act. Hence, this is a cause-effect relation. Step by step, these patterns become to idioms indicating a specific speech act even though it doesn’t contain specific content. There are some idioms with the word THI that indicate a specific speech act: 5. The word THI and operation of division of a set The concept of word THI considering as a operation of division of a set permits us to explain several phenomena in Vietnamese language related to the word thì. In addition, other functions of THI are investigated.