A Study Of Descriptive Words In "Gallant Maids"——An Analysis Of The Features Of Descriptive Words In "Gallant Maids"via Comparing "Gallant Maids"with"Dream Of Red Mansions

Descriptive words, a kind of adjectives, are used to describe the colours of people and objects as well as their certain state and modality. As a very important medium, the application of them can make expressions more vivid. Therefore, this paper centres on studying using of descriptive words in 揋allant Maid?The first section of the paper mainly surveys the present study on descriptive words, sets the standard for the classification of their parts of speech and points out the attribution and range of them. The second section, on the basis of the comparison with the descriptive words in 揇ream of Red Mansions? expounds the structual type and grammatical function of descriptive words. The third and forth sections describe the meaning features, rhetoric and pragmatic functions of descriptive words respectively. The fifth section is the conclusion.Through expounding, we can conclude that the descriptive words are possessed of some transitional features under the influence of those of the novel擥allant Maid?itself. This is very helpful for us to have a knowledge about the original characteristics of mordern chinese and probe into the development of the descriptive words.