语言演变与修辞研究的拓展

The Linguistic Evolution of Chinese Vernacular and the Expansion of the Study on Chinese Rhetoric

现代白话文学语言诞生于“五四”时期 ,至今只有不到百年的历史 ,它在发展中还充满了变数———以往人们对这一点往往没有给予充分的关注。新时期以来 ,许多作家的语言观和文学观发生了很大的变化 ,他们在语言上进行了大胆试验 ,为当前的修辞研究拓展了广阔的空间。探索主要集中在三个方面 :对语言能指形式的突出关注 ;文学语言的陌生化 ;各种辞格的创新使用。

The literary language of modern Chinese vernacular, originated in the May 4th Movement' in 1919, has a short history of less than one hundred years. Therefore, this literary language abounds with possibilities in its future evolution, a fact not being fully studied in the past. In the 20th century, holding the views on language and literature entirely different from the traditional ones, modern Chinese litterateurs experimented boldly with the modern Chinese vernacular, thus expanding the domain for the current rhetoric study. In this thesis, the author explores the modern Chinese vernacular used in modern Chinese literature mainly from three aspects: the functions of the signifier; the linguistic defamiliarization, the jumbled use of various styles of the language, and the appreciation of ugliness; and the originality in the employment of rhetoric devices.