Semiotics is one of the core concepts in contemporary philosophy,linguistics and many other ideological fields.Although it is a new discipline founded in the 20th century,researchers from both the East and the West ha...Semiotics is one of the core concepts in contemporary philosophy,linguistics and many other ideological fields.Although it is a new discipline founded in the 20th century,researchers from both the East and the West have studied the phenomena of symbols for a long time.Western semiotics came into existence as a new discipline during the 1960s,whose origin could be traced back to ancient Greek philosophy.In ancient China,there was no concept of semiotics,but Chinese ancestors practiced divination by some special symbols,which might be considered the sprouts of semiotics.Those methods in divination were called Lianshanyi in the Xia Dynasty and Guizangyi in the Shang Dynasty.In the Zhou Dynasty,the forms of divinations and their explanations were more plentiful,which were collectively called Zhouyi,posing as"the leading classics and the source of‘Tao’".The study on Zhouyi found that its symbolic concepts possessed explainable relevance to those in Western semiotics represented by Saussure,Peirce and Morris,especially between the three key elements:"hexagram image","hexagram judgment"and"hexagram meaning"in Zhouyi corresponding to the three core formulas:"Sign=Signifier+Signified","Sign=Relation(Medium,Object,Interpret)"and"M=ME+MP+MF"of Western semiotics.The study suggested that exploration into the symbolic concepts of ancient Chinese philosophical classics might provide new perspectives for the interpretation of Western semiotics.展开更多
Throughout its development course,lyric has developed complex relationships with other literary forms,such as classical prose,poetry,and rhapsody,from an objective point of view.Kuang Zhouyi况周颐attached great import...Throughout its development course,lyric has developed complex relationships with other literary forms,such as classical prose,poetry,and rhapsody,from an objective point of view.Kuang Zhouyi况周颐attached great importance to exploring the relationship between lyric and other literary forms when investigating the history of lyric and constructing theories for lyric studies.He introduced the idea that"lyric is a subcategory of prose"from the perspective that lyric has a logical thread.He made detailed analyses regarding the differences and commonalities between lyric and song and the practice of writing operas and songs based on lyric stories in the Jin and Yuan dynasties.Starting from the narrative feature of lyric,he revealed the basic fact that new lyrics are derived from stories,and stories are presented in the form of lyrics.Furthermore,he examined"The Story of Nur al-Din Ali Ibn-Bakkar and the Slave-Girl Shams al-Nahar"from The Arabian Nights to analyze the writing techniques used in foreign literature to express the tender feelings between men and women.Based on this analysis,he argued that fiction and lyric share commonalities.As a scholar who committed the most enthusiasm to lyric studies from the late Qing to the early Republican periods,Kuang Zhouyi made many pioneering arguments on the relationships between lyric and parallel prose,lyric writing and zaju杂剧opera,lyric and fiction,reflecting the new characteristics of lyric studies in the early Republican period.展开更多
文摘Semiotics is one of the core concepts in contemporary philosophy,linguistics and many other ideological fields.Although it is a new discipline founded in the 20th century,researchers from both the East and the West have studied the phenomena of symbols for a long time.Western semiotics came into existence as a new discipline during the 1960s,whose origin could be traced back to ancient Greek philosophy.In ancient China,there was no concept of semiotics,but Chinese ancestors practiced divination by some special symbols,which might be considered the sprouts of semiotics.Those methods in divination were called Lianshanyi in the Xia Dynasty and Guizangyi in the Shang Dynasty.In the Zhou Dynasty,the forms of divinations and their explanations were more plentiful,which were collectively called Zhouyi,posing as"the leading classics and the source of‘Tao’".The study on Zhouyi found that its symbolic concepts possessed explainable relevance to those in Western semiotics represented by Saussure,Peirce and Morris,especially between the three key elements:"hexagram image","hexagram judgment"and"hexagram meaning"in Zhouyi corresponding to the three core formulas:"Sign=Signifier+Signified","Sign=Relation(Medium,Object,Interpret)"and"M=ME+MP+MF"of Western semiotics.The study suggested that exploration into the symbolic concepts of ancient Chinese philosophical classics might provide new perspectives for the interpretation of Western semiotics.
文摘Throughout its development course,lyric has developed complex relationships with other literary forms,such as classical prose,poetry,and rhapsody,from an objective point of view.Kuang Zhouyi况周颐attached great importance to exploring the relationship between lyric and other literary forms when investigating the history of lyric and constructing theories for lyric studies.He introduced the idea that"lyric is a subcategory of prose"from the perspective that lyric has a logical thread.He made detailed analyses regarding the differences and commonalities between lyric and song and the practice of writing operas and songs based on lyric stories in the Jin and Yuan dynasties.Starting from the narrative feature of lyric,he revealed the basic fact that new lyrics are derived from stories,and stories are presented in the form of lyrics.Furthermore,he examined"The Story of Nur al-Din Ali Ibn-Bakkar and the Slave-Girl Shams al-Nahar"from The Arabian Nights to analyze the writing techniques used in foreign literature to express the tender feelings between men and women.Based on this analysis,he argued that fiction and lyric share commonalities.As a scholar who committed the most enthusiasm to lyric studies from the late Qing to the early Republican periods,Kuang Zhouyi made many pioneering arguments on the relationships between lyric and parallel prose,lyric writing and zaju杂剧opera,lyric and fiction,reflecting the new characteristics of lyric studies in the early Republican period.
