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A Study On The Noun In Han Feizi

Posted on:2009-07-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Y GuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242996185Subject:Chinese Philology
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Han Feizi is one of the philosophers' writings in pre-Qin times,which was produced in the time of Warring States when radical social changes happened.The book(Han Feizi)involves substantial contents at that time,such as polity,economy, culture,geography,animal and plants.It can supply the research of pre-Qin Chinese with rich material,and its language can reflect the basic appearance of the ancient Chinese,especially the language of the end of Warring States.Therefore,it plays an important role in Chinese developed history.Noun is one of the parts of speech that change most fast and reflect social develop and people's ideology easily.There are a large number of nouns in Han Feizi,and they involve social life in its various aspects. So it is necessary for us to make a comprehensive and systematic study about it,in order to show the characteristics of noun in the time of Warring States.This article uses Chen Qiyou' Han Feizi for original version of study,and I intend to make a comprehensive and systematic study about the nouns in Han Feizi.There are four chapters in this article.The first chapter:Introduction.It is a brief introduction of Han Feizi' contents, author,present situation of language research,and the research significance method and material of the noun in Han Feizi.The second chapter:A survey of the noun in Han Feizi.Firstly,introduce determined and statistical standards of the noun in Han Feizi.Secondly,analyse the noun's quantity and the way of constitute in Han Feizi.Concentrate my efforts on depicting combined compound words,and show characteristics of the two kinds of compound words exhaustively by data statistics and tabulation method.The third chapter:the meaning classification of the noun in Han Feizi.Mainly according to meaning,first the nouns in Han Feizi are divided into proper noun and common noun,and then the proper noun is divided into several small categories,the common noun is divided into concrete noun and abstract noun.This chapter make full use of limit-statistics,tabulation method and the way of describing by giving examples.The fourth chapter:the characteristics and grammar functions of the noun in Han Feizi.Introduce the characteristics and grammar functions of proper noun concrete noun and abstract noun in Han Feizi.In a word,the grammar functions of the noun are variety and complexity in the time of Warring States.As follows:Besides noun can be mainly used for subject and object in sentences,it is universal phenomenon that noun can also be used for attribute and predicate.It is common for other concrete noun used for adverbial modifier,except for the time-noun and position-noun,and they can show many different grammar meanings.
Keywords/Search Tags:Han Feizi, proper noun, concrete noun, abstract noun
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