《论语》文体渊源考

Research on the Origin of Confucian Analects

孔门整理孔子遗说而编纂《论语》,主要是基于学派建设的考虑。为了更好地服务于此目的,孔门充分利用传统资源以加强其权威性。这主要表现在三个方面:一是继承史官语类文献及简册载录的神圣传统,使孔子话语在"书"这样的形态下生成为经典文献;二是沿承"王若曰"、"君子曰"以来的立言传统,借此赋予孔子话语以神圣性;三是继承大夫"家语"传统,这些方面构成《论语》编纂的先在文体来源。孔门正是在这些文体资源之基础上建构《论语》这部儒家学派的经典文献,它同时也奠定了诸子"家语"文献的新传统。

Confucius' s disciples compiled Confucian Analects,mainly based on considerations of school construction.In order to serve this purpose,the disciples of Confucius,make full use of traditional resources to enhance its authority.This is mainly manifested in the following three aspects:one is the sacred tradition inherited the official documents and a brief manual,make Confucius words in the form of 'book' or become a classic literature;Second,following 'the king said,' and 'the emperor said' tradition,whereby to Confucius words holiness;The third is the inherited this tradition of minister's 'Jiayu'.These three aspects constitute a Confucian Analects compiling style source,disciples of Confucius,these stylistic resources on the basis of the classical literature of Confucianism to construct Confucian Analects,and it also laid the traditional 'Jiayu' literature of the new tradition.