From Negation to Understatement:Taking Meishenme as an Example
Understatement is a speech act performed by the speaker to reduce the listener's emphasis on the event,with the core element being influence.A complete understatement discourse is composed of thematic events,understatement markers,and understatement reasoning,following a series of pragmatic rules.Meishenme is used to negate the existence of things or the occurrence of events.When the object being negated shifts from the conceptual domain to the psychological domain,the focus of speech shifts from negating quantity or quality to negating importance,and the function of understatement emerges.In addition to expressing the speaker's subjectivity,it also has pragmatic power over the listener.When the listener expresses obvious unexpected emotions,the speaker can achieve the purpose of counter-mirativity by understatement,promoting the transformation of the meaning in that context.
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