Research On Wang Nian-sun's XunguTheories And Practice

Being famous linguistician as Duan Yu-cai, Wang Nian-sun wasaccepted representative of the Qianjia school and Subject of Xungu(to resemblehermeneutic: the subject that explains Chinese literature words) of Qing dynasty,wrotemonographes for instance GuangYa ShuZheng,DuShuZaZhi,ShiDa and so on. DuanYu-cai praised "in particular he accurately comprehend meaning of sutra. He is the firstperson throughout whole country". Wang Nian-sun still is worthy for we to study incollation of ancient books and paronym research. Abundant language datum WangNian-sun bequeathed us still worthy of studying and summing up. The thesis mainlydiscussed WANG Nian-sun theoretical innovation along with the influence of theinnovation toward the Xungu method. The emphases of research are Wang Nian-sun'scontributiveness and insufficiency in the aspects of collation and paronym research.The paper is divided into five chapters. the first chapter mainly expatiates the valueand meanings of stduying Wang Nian-sun's Xungu theories and monographs, andemphasizes the stduy is good for the development of Subject of Xungu and derivationtoday. The second Chapter writes three greatest breakthrough in theoretics methodrelative to forefathers and contemporary: first, he began to possess historical conceptionin language, and bring forward the proposition of seeking ancient words meanings byancient sound. The significance of the proposition is a landmark in the history ofSubject of Xungu because this make his method of seeking meaning by sound isessentially different from predecessor's. Second, he advocated systematic research onwords meanings, which made Subject Xungu develep from explaining sutra phase toaccidence phase of hermeneutic, accordingly promoted the creation of New XunguSubject. Third, he knew the sound is the carrier of the wodrs meaning, having the morethorough understanding to the language essence, thus making the Xungu methodsdevelop to explaining words meaning mostly form by grapheme to sound. the thirdChapter is keystone of the thesis, mainly writing collation contents of DuShuZaZhi,anew concluding 64 sorts that After Reading HuaiNanZiZaZhi by WANG Nian-sundivided the errors of ancient book and has complementarities, discussing the reasonsWang obtained the great achievement in collation, the values and meanings of the research, concretely Points out Wang Nian-sun's some errors. The fourth chapterseverally discusses the contribution and the shortage of ShiDa, GuangYaShuZheng,DuShuZaZhi from the angle of paronym research. The fifth chapter is conclusion,further points out WangNian-sun's contribution and the shortage from confined Xunguconception, talking the most deep-felt cognition we lay store by both attestation andevidences in respect that words explanation of colltion of ancient books and paronymresearch each exists a problem diffcult to estimate the right and wrong. In one word,we must have careful attitude, the spirit of taking the substantial evidence serously. Wecan't solve simply problem with deduction because the language havs the property ofarbitrariness after all, being different from logic.The paper main creative place is as follow: first, the paper not only points out WangNian-sun solved problems via inductive, deductive, analogical methods in XunGuresearch, but also indicates Wang Nian-sun's errors of consequence especiallyreasoning paronym in Shida and DuShuZaZhi appears to be logically imprecise. Theerrors owing to similitude of Chinese character are concerned, the paper bringforward the problem of degree of similitude to cause scholars' attention: we should bevery careful in the course of collating ancient books, avoiding such cursory behaviorsof revising subjectively ancient books simply according to their similitudes. Second,Wang Nian-sun wrote After Reading Huainanzi ZaZhi Book in order to conclude sortsof errors of ancient books by causations,summing-up 64 to know mistake regulations.But his different standards of compartmentalization results in confusions to someextent,thus the paper concludes and classifies it again for the sake of being moreperfect and precise logicality. Third, Points concretely out some collational errors ofDuShuZaZhi from the different angle. Forth, according semantic analytical method,taking into account sameness or nearness of both first letter (the consonant in front ofChinese characters syllable) and simple or compound vowel(half department in backof Chinese characters syllable), the paper newly assifies 176 main words explained byWang Nian-sun in ShiDa, as a result make the paronym relation seem to be morebelievable, and analyses how the meaning of bigness of the words derived from.