Studies On The Four-character-pattern Idoms Of The Nouthwest Jin Dialect

The Nouthwest Jin dialect is part of the wutai county dialect of Jin provience. It is distinctive on either pronunciation, use of vocabulary or grammar. This article just chooses the four-character-pattern idoms of the Nouthwest Jin dialect as its research object, discussing its structure, grammar, rhetoric and local culture.The article can be divided into six parts. The first part is the forward, delimiting the geographic range of Nouthwest Jin provience, summing up the research fruits of the predecessors and the significance , principle and method of the subject.Part two sets forth the author's view of the article,explaining the concept of the four-character-pattern idoms, the difference from the idoms and its specific charactoristic..Part three is mainly the research of structure. Firstly, it tries to analyse the main structure of the four-character-pattern idoms of the Nouthwest Jin dialect. Based on it, the discussion of the structural charactoristic.Part four is the analysis of the grammatical function and rhetoric characteristic of the four-character-pattern idoms of the Nouthwest Jin dialect. Grammatically, the four-character-pattern idoms can function as clauses in sentences of two or more clauses, and various sentence components in simple sentences; In rhetoric, the disscution of the sound rhyme, the semantic expression and the rhetoric lattice.Part five is the analysis of the comparision and contrast between the four-character-pattern idoms and local culture. It tries to probe the local culture background of Nouthwest Jin provience in natural enviroment, economic life, custom and people's belief.Part six is the conclusion.Based on a broad and through research of the rural area and the great research fruits of the predecessors for reference, guided by modern linguistics theory, the article tries to probe and analyse the four-character-pattern idoms of the Nouthwest Jin dialect,the thesis tends to provides some useful materials for further research on the Nouthwest Jin dialect.