Ancient Vernacular Novel Sentence The Use Of Research

This thesis introduces some theories and methods of rhetoric, genre and thecorrelative subjects to make a systematical study of the sentences of ancientChinese novels. The emphasis are distribution, usage, evolution and rule of varietyof Normal Sentences and Deviated Sentences in ancient Chinese novels, as well asthe characteristics of the writings' structures and linguistic styles derived fromthem. The article comprises six chapters: introduction, conclusion and texts. In the front four chapters I classify the sentences of ancient Chinese novels intotwo types as Normal Sentences and Deviated Sentences according to the differenceof sentential characteristics, and research the concrete usage of this two types. The first chapter is introduction. It points out the main content and purport,history and status, practicable theories and means of this study. The second chapter analyzes the internal structure, characteristic, distributionand rhetoric function of the four primary types of Normal Sentences:"shewenju",rhetorical question sentences, "ba jiang" sentences and passive sentences). The third chapter comprises two sections. The first section compares someNormal Sentences with the Song&Yuan's dramas by the point of view of synchrony.The latter takes the long sentences and short sentences as the method tocomparatively study the styles between the ancient Chinese novels and thecontemporary novels on the view of diachrony. Adaptability and interdependence ofthe sentences and the styles of writing of the ancient Chinese novels has beenstudied in latter section. The fourth chapter discusses the concrete usage of the primary Ways andApplications of Linguistic Deviation, such as superposition, double reference phrase,parenthesis, superaddition, inversion and ellipsis; along with the special linguisticphenomena consequent. The fifth chapter probes into the important functions of these types of sentencesin the rigescent formalization. The sixth chapter studies the great effects of the usage of these types ofsentences in the novels on the linguistic style of plainness and earthliness, livelinessand vividness, briefness and miscellaneous. Conclusion summarizes the main characteristics, rules and historiccontributions of the sentences in ancient Chinese novels. It also appraises theinnovations and shortages of this thesis.