Nicknames Study On Outlaws Of The Marsh

Outlaws of the Marsh is one of four classic literary works, which is the representative of the early Ming Dynasty and the first chapter novel written in the vernacular in Chinese history. It plays an important status whose language is unique and with its own style, especially its nicknames.Nickname is not special names, but a culture which is the symbol of cultural man in the underworld and the accumulation of folk culture. There are deep social, life and spirit brand for the nicknames, which mirrors our unique national psychology and aesthetic taste.Each hero has his own nickname in history that indicates his status, personality, specialty, ect. Nickname was recorded in Later Han·Zhu Jun Tales, and there is a Nfir—Xu Zhu in Three Kingdoms, but Outlaws of the Marsh is the real novel concentrating various and plentiful nicknames which sounds not extraordinary and meaningful, but can reflect ones'personality, such as "Wisestar" is the one filled with schemes and wisdom; " timely rain" is the one to turn up and help the people in need timely, and "drum flea" is as light as a swallow and bounces like the spring in the drum to show his agility. Thus, there is a regular pattern for the nicknames in Outlaws of the Marsh that is inherited and cited often by the later Kung Fu novels.This paper is made up with six chapters, the first one introduces the comprehensive current study situation on the nickname of Outlaws of the Marsh at length, taking reference to the relative articles about this novel, on the nicknames and concerning those nicknames in this novel, then sets forth the reasons of selecting this subject and my approaches of learning, explains and defines for used corpus at last; The second analyses their semantic features of the nicknames from the viewpoint of semantic, and carrys out the further analysis in the cognitive perspective; The third is to show the nicknames based on the word-formation and coinage; The fourth studies them from the rhetoric view and discusses in the aspects of pragmatic and effect; The fifth represents part according to west metaphor; The last chapter explores them from sociolinguistics and culture connotation, consisting of four parts which reflects the Confucianism, aesthetic psychology, advocating Kung-Fu and adoring heroes in society.