A Study On The New Elements Of Behavioral Words In Shangqing Scriptures Of Taoism Shangqing Sect From Eastern Jin Dynasty To Southern Dynast

The preserved Taoist classics not only recorded the changes of Chinese nationality in thought, but also reflected some phenomena of Chinese in linguistics. From Eastern Jin Dynasty to Southern Dynast, shangqing sect of Taoism (this sect is located in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River Accumulated some scriptures which were named shangqing scriptures as a whole. This is the important materials of study from which we could get some information about the Chinese appearance of that period. But up to now academic research in this area is still very limited, the basic information of the terms still wait to be discovered. On the base of collation, this thesis chooses 2901 new elements of behavioral words as the object to describe the word appearance, to analyze the word formation and the pragmatic meaning, and to explore the sources with the introduced conception of "degree of life". This thesis is divided into seven parts.Chapter1, on the base of the correlative collation result home and abroad, the material of this thesis is chose from the and the phenomena of copy among them are given a brief introduction. Next, the status quo, objects, value and method of research and why to choose this theme are introduced too.The "degree of life" concept is introduced into this thesis. With it, all the action noun is divided into animate noun and inanimate noun. And with the human-centered view,the animate noun is classified as the partial organ action, the integrative action and the psychological action. And according to the thematic classification, the integrative action and inanimate nouns are analyzed respectively and systematically.Chapter II to V, the article focuses on the description of the animate words. According to the statistical results, the majority of action noun is the animate noun, the proportion of integrative action noun is higher than the partial organ action noun's. This shows in most description of action, human is described as a whole; and in the partial organ action noun, hand and mouth play an active part, which have the most abundant corresponding semantics meaning.Chapter VI, the article gives a description to the inanimate noun. Comparing with the animate noun, the inanimate noun is less, whose quantity is grater impact by the content of article. This thesis analyzes "shining", "irrigation", "wrap" and "coverage", and so on.There are lots of synonyms of "shine" in the shangqing scripture.Chapter7, from the lexicological point of view, the social distribution, the meaning distribution and the pragmatic meaning of some words is analyzed.On the social distribution, four areas are divided: some new words that were produced to express Taoist action specifically some new words could be used to express either Taoism or Buddhism religious action, some new words just express some general actions; some words which was changing from general noun to proper noun. The majority of action noun is the general action noun which insures the expression could afford the communication task efficiently; proper nouns reflect the feature of the expression, in which the new made a good proportion; with the expansion of the use of proper noun, few of them were admitted by general noun. And the action noun which was used to express both Taoist and Buddhist action reflected the closer and closer relationship between Taoism and Buddhism.In the distribution of meaning, the article reveals that a large number of synonyms appeared in certain action noun which leaded the unbalance between the quality and the quantity reflected the polysyllabic vocabulary are more and more used and became more and more important in literatures. In the origin of meaning, transmutation and transfer are analyzed. The truth behind the change of "vehicle- drive-visit" which was leaded by the content of literatures is revealed. And the effect in semantics which came from Taoist thought, some religious practice way of shangqing sect and some Taoist advocacy are analyzed. At the same time, some special linguistic phenomena are explored too.In Pragmatic analysis, starting from semantic field, the general words which are the synonyms of "Qi Bing" or "recite" are made a systematically volume statistic and a word frequency count. The results show that, although the new has a lesser superiority in amount, but when people expressed a concept, they more inclined to use the old. So in pragmatic the old are much more important. However, we could not exaggerate the effect of the new, when we affirm its vigor and effect. Later on "zhai jiao," a specific analysis is given from the aspect of semantic field. From that a conclusion is got that the new element superior to the old elements in the volume and pragmatics. This is very different from the general nouns'. But just this difference could help us with a more comprehensive assessment of the new element.