| This article studies the function of Chinese character rhetoric, it mainly bases on the theory of Chinese character rhetoric, and connects with the theory of psychology and aesthetics. It observes the large collected language facts. After analyzing and comparing them, the author finally summarize its characteristics. In the study, as far as possible from different angle research the function of Chinese character rhetoric, the author try to make sure that the form is combined with meaning, the description is combined with explanation in the thesis.The article mainly contains seven parts:1,Chinese character rhetoric and its function generality. This part introduces the Chinese character rhetoric and its case, and summarizes the function of Chinese character rhetoric, which includes expression function, decoding function, culture function, appreciation function, game and entertainment function, and other functions resulted from working with other cases.2,Expression function of Chinese character rhetoric. This part mainly studies the expression effect, resulted from Chinese character rhetoric in intercommunication, and elaborated that using Chinese character rhetoric can make language more vivid , special and humorous.3,Decoding function of Chinese character rhetoric. This part mainly introduces what the decoding function of Chinese character rhetoric is. It discussed the characteristics of the decoding function of Chinese character rhetoric. Then the readers can accept the writer's original meaning from the words, which is meaningless.4,Culture function of Chinese character rhetoric. This part expatiates it from two aspects: One is that, Chinese character rhetoric makes some especial culture phenomena in Chinese culture, such as couplet, word puzzle, and folk—culture . The other is psychological feature of Chinese culture reflected from the activity of Chinese character rhetoric.5,Appreciation function of Chinese character rhetoric. This part studies Chinese character rhetoric from the aspect of aesthetics. It discussed using Chinese character rhetoric in intercommunication can create the beauty of image, and mood.6,The game and entertainment function of Chinese character rhetoric. This part mainly studies the use of Chinese character rhetoric in the word games, such as couplet, word puzzle, and elaborated that Chinese character rhetoric have the game and entertainment function.7,Other functions resulted from working with other cases. This part studies the connection phenomena of Chinese character rhetoric and other cases, which makes Chinese character rhetoric has the effect of emphasis, supplement and collecting. |