A Rhetorical Study Of Language Aesthetic In A Lai’s Novel Dust Settled

As one of the representative works of A Lai, Dust Settled depicts a magnificentepic of Tibetan nationality with unique Tibetan perspective and profoundunderstanding about life. Besides the unique selection of materials and legendarystories in the work, the beautiful language in it is the key to the success of the book.Dust Settled’s language aesthetic don’t belong to a single style of language, but fromdifferent language styles, which are constitute the overall language aesthetic in thebook. The artistic charm of this work is increasing by the overall language beautytremendously.This thesis gives a detailed explanation of the cause of language aesthetic fromthe aspects of phonology, vocabulary, rhetorical device and sentence patterns afteranalyzing the phonological characteristic, word selection, rhetorical usage andsentence arrangement in the work. The language aesthetic of the book comes mainlyfrom its succinct and flexible language, the implicit expression and distinct ethnicstyle. These three causes are integrated with each other in the application of rhetoricaldevices, so that the quality of the language is improved and multiple beauties arecreated. At the same time, the language aesthetic is strongly related with the A Lai’slife experience and literary ideas.To sum up, the rhetorical analysis of Dust Settled’s language aesthetic providesus with a new perspective for probing into A Lai’s intention of literature creation andunderstanding the work itself.