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On three types of emotional gradation through repetitive inversion in the “Ch’ing chen chi” by Chou Pang-yen (I) --- Flexible and transition usage of “Leading words” as grammatical markers

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2010, (23), pp.3-44
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2010..23.001
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : June 30, 2010

楊晉綺 1

1清華大學中文系

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Based on the “Ch’ing chen chi” (清真詞) by Chou Pang-yen (周邦彥) and related literature, three different ways to create emotional gradation through repetitive inversion in Chou’s work are analyzed. Different from the work of Liu Yung (柳永)characterized by long melody and direct narration, Chou composed his tz’u with emotional gradation through repetitive inversion, which led to a recursive, implicit and reserved style of tz’u popular in the southern Song. There were three ways to represent emotional gradation through repetitive inversion given in the long melody of the “Ch’ing chen chi”. The first way was the explicit usage of conjunctions for inversion such as “although” and “but” in the sentences, often accompanied by the special “leading words” (領字) of the tz’u, which clearly expressed the inversion of meanings and resulted in the introduction of new ideas not only in the aspect of grammatical format but also the text meaning. The second way of emotional gradation through repetitive inversion was identified as the contrast of image and the consistence among different paragraphs in text. Zhou preferred to hide some special meanings in words and sentences between rhymes, which reflected the conflict between the reality and expectation of life due to the change of space and time and the consequence of sudden turning-point incidences during one traveling across space and time. The last one was the emotional gradation through repetitive inversion occurring on the cultural and linguistic level, where the moral guidance and knowledge system in the ancient literature was challenged and questioned. Interlacing these three types of expression incorporated with “Rhyme Partition” (分韻) and “Paragraph Transition”(過片) Zhou’s work showed elegant, deliberate and reserved style. This paper,focusing on the first type of emotional gradation through repetitive inversion,discusses the flexible and transition usage of the “leading words” serving as the marking function appearing in the “Ch’ing chen chi”.

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