意指概念与接合实践:陆羽《茶经》的话语修辞与意义建构

Ideographic Concept and Articulation Practice:Discourse Rhetoric and Meaning Construction in Lu Yu’s The Book of Tea

陆羽在《茶经》中实施了意指概念和接合实践两种修辞策略,他提出了"经""嘉""精""俭""洁"等意指概念,并通过接合实践,搭造了儒学话语阐释框架,赋予意指概念丰富的儒学内涵。《茶经》通过话语修辞建构的中国茶文化的"核心价值观",很快就得到了中国主流社会和各阶层的普遍认同,并一跃成为流行中国茶界的主流话语,历经千年而不衰。在今天呼唤中华民族伟大复兴、传承与弘扬民族文化的语境下,《茶经》所传递的茶文化理念仍然得到人们的尊奉与认可,这不能不归功于陆羽卓有成效的修辞实践。

In The Book of Tea,Lu Yu implemented two rhetorical strategies:ideographic concept and articulation practice;he put forward such ideographic concepts as"jing","jia","jing","jian"and"jie",and constructed the interpretation framework of Confucian discourse through practice,which endowed the ideographic concept with rich Confucian connotations.The"core values"of Chinese tea culture constructed by discourse rhetoric in The Book of Tea have been widely recognized by the mainstream society and all social strata in China,and have become the mainstream discourse of the popular Chinese tea industry for thousands of years.Today,in the context of calling for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,inheriting and carrying forward the national culture,the tea culture concept conveyed by The Book of Tea is still respected and recognized by people,which should be attributed to the effective rhetoric practice by Lu Yu.