With the help of the polyphony of language,it can be found that the suowei(所谓)sentences have two voices:the speaker’s and the quoted person’s.The similarities and differences between the two voices correspond to the different meanings of suowei.When there is no apparent deviation between them,suowei means“so-called”.The condition for suowei to express subjective meanings such as“unconvinced”,“contemptuous”,“denying”,and“derogatory”is that the two voices deviate,either partially or completely.The suowei sentences are at the interse...
