太平天国公文语言的特点

The Language Characteristics of the Official Documents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

太平天国公文用语独具特色,在革命宣传方面发挥了重要作用。公文中诗歌句式方便了军民口口相传,使得革命思想深入人心。大量方言口语的运用增强了军民的凝聚力,革命隐语的巧妙使用间接地增强了太平天国公文的保密性。同时大量方言口语和诗歌句式的使用也降低了作为政治载体的公文的权威性和指令性。

The language of the official documents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is unique and has played an important role in the revolutionary propaganda. Its poetic syntax is convenient to passing the revolutionary ideas from mouth to mouth in order to win the support among the people. The using of dialect helped in enhancing the cohesion between the troops and the local people, the clever using of revolutionary argots indirectly enhanced the confidentiality of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom documents. At the same time, using a lot of dialect and poetic sentences also moderated the stiffness of authority and mandatory in this kind of political documents.