On The Linguistic Characteristics Of Bacon's The Essays

The purpose to create language is to make expression. The exchange of feelings can promote interpersonal communication, dissemination of human civilization and progress and scientific creativity and invention. Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is a subject to make a research of language changes, which is an important branch of linguistics. The language history of research, from the historical development of a language to study changes in the structure and its regularity. From the historical evolution of language structure on the different elements of research, you can separate the"Historical Phonetics","Historical Lexicology","Historical Grammar"and other parts. Historical Phonetics research into voice changes, historical grammar study changes in morphology and syntax, historical study of semantics is the meaning of the word changes. It is traditionally linked comparative linguistics, which studies the genetic relationship between languages, aims to find out their common mother tongue. Historical linguistics synchronic linguistics also can be named diachronic linguistics.Francis Bacon, a distinguished philosopher and statements in Britain during the Renaissance, is regarded as the inaugurator of British essays, whose work, The Essays, has not only become his main representative of literature creation, but also won him enduring literary fame. The book cost him nearly thirty years, including aspects like ethnics, philosophical ideas, strategies of being officials, methods of conducting oneself, advices of particular issues and appreciation of nature. Francis Bacon represented his unique opinions in elegant and terse language, whose clear and concise style has been influencing the writing mode of the descendants. So far, the book has been reprinted many times and translated into many languages, honored worldwide as epoch-making classic.The thesis attempts to make a systematic research on the language change of The Essays from diachronic view and tell apart the difference between the book and the language of the modern English. Based on a series of analysis, a conclusion has been drawn that there are some differences and similarities during the development and change of language, as a result, the understanding of the language change in the book can be recognized.