In Shaoyang urban dialect, sentences with ＂qing（请）＂ are usually used as the marked passive sentences whose typical pattern is ＂NP1＋qing＋NP2＋VP2＂. Such a constitution is charac- teristic of two outstanding aspects： the complexity of VP2 and the obligatoriness of NP2. Passive sen- tences with ＂qing＂ have two basic pragmatic functions： 1）emotional function, which expresses the speakers’subjective emotion and unexpected feeling;2）positioning function, which is used by the speaker to position the patient as a victim role to imply th...
