The Study Of Language Style Of The Novel In Late Qing Dynasty And Early Republic Of China

To study the feature and trend of the novel’s language style including the effect of culture operation mechanism in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China, this paper mainly uses the linguistics, sociology, cultural studies, psychology, text analysis and so on. The classical chinese and the vernacular chinese belong to two different chinese written system, different language style representing different value orientation and the symbols of social status,and the traditional novel. presents the difference between elegance and popular beacause of different language style. The novel’s language styles in the late Qing Dynastv and the early republic or China, unlike the past,have a very big difference with the Five-Four period, which have the relatively independent value and the great significance of the classical chinese’decline and the vernacular chinese’ incease in the chinese written language.This paper mainly includes three specific aims. Firstly, it combs the historical evolution of the classical chinese and the vernacular chinese of two kind two chinese written language of ancient chinese literature, as well as the development characteristics, trends and patterns in the entire history. Secondly, the novel’s language style is classified in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China, its complexity and uniqueness analysed.Threely, the article analyses the idea of literary style and the popular aesthetic concept and the complex state of intellectuals’ mind back the features and trends of novel’s language styles in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China, and the change of the operating mechanism of the society how to accelerate the transition of the vernacular chinese instead of the classical chinese.Based on the above goal, this thesis is mainly divided into six chapters.The first chapter is " the development trend of the classical chinese and the vernacular chinese before the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China". The author defines the classical Chinese and the vernacular Chinese, combing the development of the classical chinese and the vernacular chinese before the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China. The classical chinese and the vernacular chinese pertain to different vocabulary and grammar system, but they are the same origin, based on the basis of Ideographic writing system and mutual blended in the development process. After the classical Chinese becoming the official mainstream written language, intellectuals have had a profound understanding of separation phenomenon between the classical Chinese and the vernacular chinese, due to various factors, and the vernacular chinese only accumulates its advantage gradually in the edge, but it has clearly emerged the fluctuation trend.The second chapter is " the language style selection of the novel of the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China:multiple language styles". On the basis of other research results of the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China, the author classifies novel’s language styles, more detailed classification.The vernacular written language includes the ancient vernacular and Mandarin, dialect, vernacular written language from the translation of western literature, and the dialect written language mainly including Beijing dialect,and Wu dialect. Based on the novel text, the classical Chinese can be divided into the syntactic irregular classical chinese and the parallel classical chinese. The rhythmic language style mainly refers to the written language of some writers’s Playing and Singing Novel.The third chapter is "multiple language styles’coexists and complicated novel idea in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China". As the representative of the vernacular novels,"New novel" is named the novel, but It is actually many literary styles mixed together.Lin Shu insisted on historical literary idea of the novel, style selection of the elegant and free classical Chinese selected,however Xu Zhenya used the parallel prose concept of novel, the dual parallel classical chinese selected. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China, the difference between the classical chinese and the vernacular chinese was no longer division standard of elegance and vulgarity, which had been transformed into conveying truth of the traditional concept as the measure.As the representative of the vernacular novel,"New novel" is "to vulgar as elegance", writers writing serious fiction with the popular vernacular chinese; Lin Shu is "elegance’s changing vulgar", enhancing the elegance of popular novels using the elegant and free classical chinese; As the representative of the parallel prose fiction, Xu Zhenya is "to the elegant to vulgar", who wrote the erotic love fictions with elegant and parallel classical chinese.The fourth chapter is "multiple language styles’coexists and Intellectual mental state in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China".In the intense changes in the social context, Intellectual mental state was complexedly changed compared with traditional in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China, so it was also closely related with multiple language styles’selection. The vernacular novels reflected the reformers intellectuals’ideal pursue saving the nation and the pragmatism attitude, then vernacular literature became radical intellectuals’common goal.The elegant and free classical chinese novels represents the mentality of conservative cultural intellectuals, who used free classical chinese writing "the book handed down" and aesthetic article. The parallel prose’s style novel represents intellectuals’mentality away from politics, at the same time, profit and showing off his talent.included.The fifth chapter is "the classical chinese’declind and the vernacular chinese’s increase". This chapter firstly analyses the decline of classical chinese from the angle of linguistics, then the theory about the novel, and the number of novels and other various styles (poetry, prose, drama) practicing the vernacular chinese greatly reduced the performance space of the classical chinese,finally analyses the inevitable trend of the classical chinese’declind and the vernacular chinese’s increase taking Liang Qichao’s text as an example.The sixth chapter is "the necessity and an opportunity of the times of the classical chinese’s declind and the vernacular chinese’s increase in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China".This part analyses the inexorable law of the classical chinese’s declind and the vernacular chinese’s increase from internal causes, and analyses external causes of the classical chinese’s declind and the vernacular chinese’s increase from the factors of the era, including the rise of vernacular newspapers, the needs of national construction, the abolition of the imperial examination system, the reform of education system, the transformation of the intellectual identity,and the influence of different exotic cultures. The combination of the internal causes and the external causes facilitates eventually the vernacular chinese instead of the classical chinese.The conclusion of this paper is:in this special historical background in the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China, the rise and fall and alternation of the classical chinese and the vernacular chinese got into the transformation period along the historical trajectory,and the natural language, the literature language, the language of politics were glued together, promoting together the transformation of the classical chinese to the vernacular chinese. First of all, the rise and fall and alternation of the classical chinese and the vernacular chinese is the inherent law of the development of the chinese language from the natural language; secondly, political factors have undeniably great influence on the development of language, the language of politics became the "catalyst" of the rise and fall and alternation of the classical chinese and the vernacular chinese. Thirdly, literary language reflected the evolution of the natural language and language characteristics of political sense, and became the "experimental field"of written language change and the "purifier". of the chinese language’s standardization.If there was no mandatory and all-round implementation of the vernacular literature movement in Five-four Period, if administrative institutions didn’t implement the use of Mandarin education mandatorily, perhaps chinese written language would have followed the inherent laws of development. The vernacular chinese will replace the classical chinese certainly, but the process would be extended, and form a vernacular specification in between the confrontation and the fusion. History cannot be assumed, the literary language develops only in the two competing forces between the natural language and the language of politicsThe the language reform of political meaning is either this or that mode, so the vernacular chinese insteading of the classical Chinese is a break from the modern and traditional culture, and is a fight for the discourse right between different social classes, and is partly language model of political hegemony. Since the late Qing Dynasty and the early republic of China, the vernacular chinese insteading of the classical Chinese becomes the irreversible development trend.