Research On Antonyms In The Medical Classic Of The Yellow Emperor

The Medical classic of Yellow Emperor, as one of everlasting medical works,has a broad coverage and a large vocabulary.and antonyms in it have remarkable characteristics,it plays an important role in the work.Basing on borrowing previous researching results and methods.This essay makes an investigation into the antonyms in The Medical classic of the Yellow Emperor synchronically.The whole context has five sections as followings:I .Introduction:This section gives overview of the basic information about The Medical classic of Yellow Emperor.and discusses the value of studing the antonyms in this book.II Judgement of antonyms in The Medical classic of Yellow Emperor.This part mainly ascertains the principles of judging antonyms and methods of compiling statistics of antonyms by referring to all kind of previous viewpoints.According to the judging principles and statistic methods of antonyms,there are 239 pairs of antonyms in this book.III.Types of antoryms in The Medical classic of Yellow Emperor.This Section classifies the antonyms in The Medical classic of YellowEmperor from two angles.First,according to syntactical functions and morphological features of words.There are mainly four types:verbs,adjectives,nouns,and adverbs.Among them,the adjective antonyms are at the top in quantity.Second,according to the relationship between the conceptions of antonyms,three type are offeredxomplementary relation,Polarity relation and opposite relation.IV.characteristics of antonyms of The Medical classic of Yellow Emperor. The characteristics can be summed into 5 piont: large quantity and high frequency of using,flexible use,complex correponding relation-ship,specical medical antonyms appering and antonyms depending strongly on circumstance of language existing.V .Function of antonyms in The Medical classic of Yellow Emperor.Functions of antonyms in The Medical classic of Yellow Emperor mainy found in expression and word-building.Function in expression mainly show as to contrast to generalize,to emphasiz,and function of word-building mainly show as building compound of antonyms.