Due to the established narrative patterns and powerful and profound ideological influences of classical Chinese literature,the image of China has been reinterpretation during the process of imagination,construction,an...Due to the established narrative patterns and powerful and profound ideological influences of classical Chinese literature,the image of China has been reinterpretation during the process of imagination,construction,and experience of Japanese writer or researcher,with many distortions and misinterpretations.The image of China in Japanese literature is an impression and illusion formed by the combination of cultural awareness and literary classics.The following article will analyze and sort out the Chinese image in Japanese literature.展开更多
Chinese is commonly believed to be an analytic language,but evidence from philological works and cross-linguistic comparisons clearly suggests that various morphological operations existed in Old Chinese.The loss of C...Chinese is commonly believed to be an analytic language,but evidence from philological works and cross-linguistic comparisons clearly suggests that various morphological operations existed in Old Chinese.The loss of Chinese morphology can be explained by the ideographic nature of Chinese characters:the Chinese language has been evolving in a way that stabilizes the pronunciation of each character.The effects of writing systems on language evolution can be widely observed from world languages,while writing per se has been evolving along the path of phonetization driven mainly by borrowings instead of conscious linguistic analysis.In history,language never picked writing systems based on linguistic features;instead,writing systems affect the evolutionary paths of languages:single signs of a writing system stabilize the basic units of the language.展开更多
文摘Due to the established narrative patterns and powerful and profound ideological influences of classical Chinese literature,the image of China has been reinterpretation during the process of imagination,construction,and experience of Japanese writer or researcher,with many distortions and misinterpretations.The image of China in Japanese literature is an impression and illusion formed by the combination of cultural awareness and literary classics.The following article will analyze and sort out the Chinese image in Japanese literature.
基金supported by the National Social Science Fund of China(Grant No.20FYYB043)the Interdisciplinary Research Team in Humanities and Social Sciences at Soochow University(Grant No.5033720623).
文摘Chinese is commonly believed to be an analytic language,but evidence from philological works and cross-linguistic comparisons clearly suggests that various morphological operations existed in Old Chinese.The loss of Chinese morphology can be explained by the ideographic nature of Chinese characters:the Chinese language has been evolving in a way that stabilizes the pronunciation of each character.The effects of writing systems on language evolution can be widely observed from world languages,while writing per se has been evolving along the path of phonetization driven mainly by borrowings instead of conscious linguistic analysis.In history,language never picked writing systems based on linguistic features;instead,writing systems affect the evolutionary paths of languages:single signs of a writing system stabilize the basic units of the language.
