Gu Ding’s Language Awareness And Literary Writing

The study of literary language is an indispensable part of the literature study of the puppet state of Manchuria.To study the literary language of Chinese writers in the puppet state of Manchuria is an important way to have a deeper understanding of the real literary ecology at that time.Gu Ding,one of the most influential Chinese writers in the puppet state of Manchuria,is the focus of the study of pseudo-Manchurian literature.Gu Ding has put forward a clear proposition on literary language which he often consciously experimented in literary writing.His works are rich in language and have their own unique style.Regardless of Gu Ding’s literary status,literary achievements,and his awareness and practices on literary language,Gu Ding’s literary language has important research value.Based on what mentioned above,this thesis selects "Gu Ding’s Language Awareness and Literary Writing" as the research object,and comprehensively depicts Gu Ding’s concept of literary language,language awareness and language features in literary writing,and explores corresponding expression effects and Gu Ding’s spiritual motivation for the purpose of opening a new path of research on the literary language of the puppet state of Manchuria while making up for the vacancy of the research on Gu Ding and deepening the study of his literature.This article has three chapters.The first chapter introduces Gu Ding’s concept of literary language.Gu Ding’s experience of junior high school education in the Mantie Railway Company,his official experience and cultural activities he joined in the puppet state of Manchuria made Gudin gradually become a popular "Japanese hand" in the Japanese colony.But at the linguistic level of literary creation,he has a strict distinction between his mother tongue and Japanese.In the writing of literature,Gu Ding always has a strong "native language" consciousness.While insisting on writing in Chinese,Gu Ding maintains a dual attitude towards the colonial language "Japanese" .On the one hand,he introduces Japanese to Chinese for the purpose of enriching Chinese,and on the other hand he is highly vigilant about the colonization ideology existed in Japanese.The second chapter focuses on the "new" and "old" language components in Gu Ding’s literary writing.In Gu Ding’s literary works The Wilderness,Sand Bank and New Life,he uses the common vocabulary and new words to ridicule and criticize the rotten ideas,and portrays three types of "old" characters.The achievement of such literary effects depends on the language produced by the modern intellectuals,so called "new" people,in the novels.The "new" and "old" language actually reflect the opposition pattern of "new" and "old" ideas in Gu Ding’s literary works,which not only suggest the author’s critical attitude and enlightenment appeal but also embody the continuation of the May 4~thh Movement in the aspects of language,writing and spiritual core.The third chapter focuses on the self-expression discourse in the literary writing of Gu Ding’s literature.The features of implicity and symbolism of prose make Gu Ding express himself in the freest way,and deal with his own spiritual crisis at the level of literary writing.The collection of prose poems Turn of The Tide show Gu Ding’s change of mind.The positive emotions revealed by the late prose poems indicate that Gu Ding has finally completed some kind of self-cleaning in the writing of prose poems which share similar philosophical discourses with other works of Gu Ding at the same time.The synonymous and repeated philosophical discourse outlines a new philosophy of existence,and the language refutation of the characters implies that Gu Ding is hesitant about this philosophy of existence.In the end,Gu Ding accepted a new belief in existence by self-deception and moved towards a new road of writing and publishing his works by himself.Gu Ding’s awareness of "native language" and "Japanese" shows his support of Chinese and Han culture in the colonial context.The use of "new" and "old" language in his literary writing indicates Gu Ding wants to counter the colonial language retro and obscurantist policy.Gu Ding,who settled down in "Literature" ,take his own language awareness and literary writing as a "spear" against the colonists and a "shield" to protect self-worth.However,the problem is that the difficulty of achieving literary enlightenment makes Gu Ding’s value of writing by himself and publishing his works by himself impossible to implement,and the resistance and guardianship at the literary level are facing the possibility of failure.This has caused Gu Ding himself to fall into a huge spiritual crisis.Gu Ding deals with his own spiritual crisis in prose poetry by "turning inward" ,and infiltrates a large number of philosophical expressions in the texts,forming his own new philosophy of existence in the process of literary writing.The synonymy,repetition and constant refutation at the linguistic level exemplify Gu Ding’s acceptance and reflection on the new philosophy of existence which is also the beginning of Gu Ding’s self-deception and a sign of Gu Ding’s compromise with the current situation.Gu Ding’s language awareness and literary writing not only show the struggle of Gu Ding but also reveal his compromise.