Studies On The Four-character-pattern Idioms Of Xinzhou Dialect

Xinzhou dialects belongs to Wutai part of Shanxi dialect, no matter it is voice, vocabulary or grammar, it has its own characteristics. Four--character-pattern idioms is a feature of Xinzhou dialect.There are about four thousand eight hundred articles in "Xinzhou Dialect Dictionary", such vast and complex four-character-pattern idioms whose position is self-evident in Xinzhou dialect. This article juest choose four-character-pattern idioms of Xinzhou dialect as its research object.The The article can be divided into five parts in order to explore four-character-pattern idioms of the Xinzhou dialect, as a result, we can give some more valuable information on dialect study.The first part is the introduction. It's mainly a brief introduction of Xinzhou, delimit the geographic range of Xinzhou dialect, sum up the research fruits of the predecessors and the significance, principle and method of the subject. The second part explains the concept of four-character-pattern idioms, the difference from XieHouYu, YanYu, and GuanYongYu:the unique structure, the semantic unit, the diversiform rhetorical devices and the common use. Then explain the differents between with four-character-pattern idioms and the idioms. The third part focuses on four-character-pattern idioms of Xinzhou dialect's structure, grammar and rhetoric. Four-character-pattern idioms of Xinzhou dialect can be divided into compound type, overlapping type, additional type and Ge-type.This is actually a very traditional classification methods, but the content of the study and the classification has its own specific characteristics, this is different way from the traditional areas; About the part of grammatical analysis, the four-character-pattern idioms of Xinzhou dialect can function as clauses in sentences of two or more clauses,and various sentence components in simple sentences. Finally analyze its rhetoric. The fourth part is the analysis of the comparision and contrast between the four-character-pattern idoms of Xinzhou dialect and local culture.It tries to probe the local culture background of Xinzhou in natural enviroment, economic life, custom and people's belief.This part based on a broad and through research of local culture.The article tries to probe and analyse the four-character-pattern idioms of Xinzhou dialect, the thesis tends to provide some useful materials for further research on Xinzhou dialect. The fifth part is the conclusion.