论假借和假借义

On Phonetic Loan Characters and the meaning of Phonetic Loan Characters--a series of papers on the philosophy of Chinese language

一般研究认为,古代汉语词义可分为本义、引申义、假借义和比喻义四类。本文运用现代语言学的观点对假借进行研究,认为假借是古代汉语特有的现象,假借属于文字现象,不属于词汇现象,所谓的假借义,实际上是文献典籍中语词的意义。

Some scholars hold that the meanings of the ancient Chinese can fall into four types, namely, original meaning, extended meaning, phonetic loan characters meaning, and figurative meaning. This thesis conducts a research on the phonetic loan characters with the help of the viewpoints of modem linguistics. The author holds that phonetic loan characters is a peculiar p.henornenon of the ancient Chinese and belongs to the field of character rather than to the field of lexis. The so-called the meaning of phonetic loan characters actually refers to the meaning of lexis in literatures.