罗愿《尔雅翼》与“因声求义”

Er Ya Yi by Luo Yuan and His approach to‘Locating the Meaning of a Word via Its Pronunciation’in Exegetic Practice

《尔雅翼》是南宋罗愿撰写的一部名物训诂专著。罗愿在名物训诂实践中运用了“因声求义”的方法:或沟通名物异称,或探究名物得名,或纠正前人误释,或辨析用字假借。这些论述中有的得到了后世学者的印证。本文通过分析《尔雅翼》书中“因声求义”的名物训诂实践,揭示该书运用的“因声求义”方法在训诂学史上的贡献。

Er Ya Yi,written by Luo Yuan in the Southern Song Dynasty,is a monograph on exegesis in naming and describing things.While naming and describing things,Luo Yuan adopted the method of‘locating the meaning of a word through its pronunciation’:either analyzing varied names of the named things,or naming things when exploring them and their names,or correcting predecessors’misinterpretations,or distinguishing the shades of meanings of loan characters.Such research experiments of Luo Yuan’s have been verified by scholars of later generations.Armed with exegetic experiences in naming and describing things as mentioned in Er Ya Yi,this paper aims to dig into the contribution that‘locating the meaning of a word via its pronunciation’has made to exegetic history.