Study Of Normal Pronunciation And Tone-change In Jingdian Shiwen

Jingdian shiwen(《经典释文》)is annotations of fourteen ancient classics such as Zhou Yi,Shangshu, written by Lu Deming. Paying special attention to the relationship between pronunciation and meaning of words is a characteristic of this works. This dissertation makes a study of normal pronunciation and tone-change, on the base of the literature language of JingDian ShiWen."Normal pronunciation" is an important term in JingDian ShiWen, which means the most common pronunciation of a word. Other pronunciations are called as "tone-changes". On the base of grasping the characteristic of phonetic notations, this dissertation comprehensives uses of sound and meaning method, make a survey of 53 high-frequency words in ShiWen to distinguish normal pronunciation and tone-change. At last, we conclude some elementary methods of distinguishing them:1. From the angle of text, first distinguish real-phonetic notations and resembling-phonetic notations by understanding the context.2. Distinguish normal pronunciation and tone-change by refering to dictionaries and classic literatures.3. Make textual research on resembling- phonetic notation."resembling- phonetic notation" is a special kind of annotation in ShiWen. It looks like phonetic notation, but in fact, it is used to explain the meaning of a word, different from "tone-change". We can easily confuse them when distinguishing normal pronunciation and tone-change. This paper makes a comprehensive research on resembling-phonetic notatio.normal pronunciation and tone-change. We try to find out "real-phonetic notations" which remain under cover, and point out its influence in history of Chinese.