A Study On The Language Of Drinkers' Wager Games In Dream Of The Red Chamber

This essay specializes in the language of drinkers' wager games in novel Dream of the Red Chamber, introduces and classifies the drinkers' wager game words in this novel in detail. The descriptions of the wager game words do not appear too many times in Dream of the Red Chamber, but they are rich in characteristics and permeate through the whole story. They form a particular system and play an important role in this novel.The main body of this essay can be sorted into three aspects. From a sociolinguistic perspective, it studies the language of drinkers' wager games in novel Dream of the Red Chamber, and analyzes the relationship between this kind of language and people's social status, professions, occasions, backgrounds, thoughts, personalities, and genders. From a rhetorical perspective, it helps us to appreciate what rhetorical devices the language utilizes to bring people the beauty of rhythm, artistic conception and vagueness. From the perspective of prophecy, it focuses on what inwardness this kind of language has, and how they combine the plots of the whole novel, which is also one of the features of novel Dream of the Red Chamber. All these will show readers a concrete, complete and systematic cognition of the language of drinkers' wager games in Dream of the Red Chamber.The most important feature of this essay lies in that this is the first time to introduce the language of drinkers' wager game in Dream of the Red Chamber concretely and systematically.