On The History Reception Of Karlgren’s Etudes Sur La Phonologie Chinoise

From the view of history reception, in the past studies, there are much achievement on literarure, art and philosophy, but linguistics. From the view of history of study Chinese phonology, the history of study Chinese phonology mainly focus on the study of Old Chinese phonology in Qing Dynasty, but rarely give any comment on Karlgren’s Etudes Sur La Phonologie Chinoise which produce deep effect on Modern Chinese phonology. Karlgren’s Etudes Sur La Phonologie Chinoise has great significance because it is a symbol which means that Modern Chinese phonology get its dayspring from then. From a certain aspect, the history of study Chinese phonology in20th century is just the history reception of Karlgren’s Etudes Sur La Phonologie Chinoise. From history reception, this thesis will give methodical analysis and discussion in the frame of history of study Chinese phonology, and consequently, discover Karlgren-the science giant bring what revolution to Chinese phonology.This thesis is composed of six chapters, which discuss the history reception of Karlgren’s Etudes Sur La Phonologie Chinoise respectively from aspects of phonetic symbol, point of view, method and dialect study, consequently, discover Karlgren’s Etudes Sur La Phonologie Chinoise bring what effect on Chinese phonology or even on whole Chinese study.The first chapter discuss Karlgren’s contribution on phonetic symbol and their usage in the field of Chinese study.The second chapter discuss Karlgren’s viewpoint on the relationship between early rhyme table and QieYun, how to use the transliteration and modern Fan Qie materials, and Karlgren’s effect on later Chinese study.The third chapter discuss Karlgren’s reconstruction on the phonology of QieYun, and the history reception of Karlgren’s reconstruction. Because Karlgren has different academic viewpoint and aim from other researchers, he give more detailed phonetic reconstruction to the phonology of QieYun. Later, many researchers modify Karlgren’s reconstruction based on phonemic viewpoint which can not be seen as negating the value of Karlgren’s reconstruction. Without Karlgren’s phonetic reconstruction, the phonemic analysis can not proceed.The forth chapter discuss the non-typical historical and comparative method used by Karlgren in his Etudes Sur La Phonologie Chinoise, analysize the difference between the non-typical historical and comparative method and typical historical and comparative method of19th century, and point out that Karlgren’s non-typical method is the medium that Chinese researchers acquire historical and comparative method. Later, a few researchers using typical historical and comparative method of19th century make comparative study on Chinese dialects, but their result does not receive extensive identity.The fifth chapter discuss Karlgren’s achievement on Chinese dialect investigation and study. Karlgren point out that Shanxi dialect is different from ambient Mandarin, he think that WenShui, XingXian, TaiGu, GuiHua and FengTai dialect are odd and important. Karlgren’s book is an important achievement which show that early researcher pay attention to the unique character of ShanXi dialect. Furthermore, Karlgren’s investigation and study on LanYin mandarin, ZhongYuan mandarin, JiangHuai mandarin, Wu dialect, Canton dialect and Min dialect show their typical and meticulous phonetic characters100years ago repectivly.The sixth chapter make a summary on the first five chapters. And at the same time, at the view of history of academics we point out that we shold reappraise Karlgren from the aspect of the relationship between QieYun and modern dialects, phonetic reconstruction and phonemic reconstruction, structure and elements.