A Study On The Associative Characters Of Shuowen Jiezi

Based on previous study results made by other researchers, this paper mainly works over follow questions:First, through a comprehensive study about the previous study results of the associative characters, we discusses former researchers' gains and losses, putting forward our views about the characteristics , the origins and the principles of the associative characters, and demonstrates our own definition and standard of selecting associative characters.Second, through the study about the relations between the indicating words of associative and semantic-defining ways, we put forward a view at the first time, that is, the image formation of the associative characters should take the semantic-defining of the meaning of words as the medium. In addition, we compared the image and indicating formation of Shuowen Jiezi(说文解字) and the semantic-defining formation of Erya(尔雅) and Shuowen Jiezi, verified they have some isomorphic relations and this also proved our former view.Third, we revealed three characteristics of the meaning-bearing forms in the process of semantic-defining mode to the associative characters, such as the concealed orders of the graphemes, the defaults of interpretation ingredients and some associative characters rely on the spatial positions between the graphemes to indicate the meaning of the word.Fourth, we generalized the mode of image formation to indicate word meaning, based on the exhaustive statistical research of the original meaning of the noun, verb and adjective, referred by the System - Functional standards. At the same time, we uses the Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology ways to analyze the forming reason of image formation to indicate words meaning and the characteristics of the the cognitive way of thinking.Fifth,we put forward five arguments of the study of associative characters in Shuowen Jiezi which would be helpful to the teaching of Chinese Characters.