"guang Ya" Terminology Research

Textual exegesis terms first appeared in the text books and in-notes of the previous Qin dynasty and the two Han dynasties, its systems were fully developed in the Qing Dynasty. Ancient scholars not only created a variety of exegesis terms, but very started to pay attention to the meaning of the terms and to how to use them in the early period.GuangYaShuZheng is magnum opus of Wang Nian-sun, a great master of exegesis in Qing dynasty. Not only was the amount of the terms in this book fabulously large, but they covered all kinds, and the terms were perfect in function. If we really want to read and use this book well, it is necessary to correctly interpret these terms.In this thesis, the terms of GuangYaShuZheng are the objects of our study. In order to provide some information for the creation of scientific terminology system exegesis, we adopt a comprehensive and systematic way to organize and analysis the terms in the book, then we review the gains and losses of the traditional exegesis terms.This is the main part. We classify the terms used by Wang Nian-sun into five categories: collation, phonetic, the terms explicating an expression, the terms of"Searching for the meaning of the words"and showing rhetoric words. In order to make the conclusion reliable, we exactly and quantitatively sum up the frequency of the terms each category emerging in this book, cite many examples and furthermore do some analysis. In these parts, we focus on the terms explicating an expression, the terms of"Searching for the meaning of the words"and the terms of showing rhetoric words.In these terms, the number of terms explicating an expression is the largest, and the usage is the most complex. We classify them into tweleve groups to introduce and analysis them according to their functions.Wang Nian-sun is proficient in phonology. And he is good at using the knowledge of the ancient Phonology to verify the meaning of a word. In GuangYaShuZheng, there are a large number of the terms of"Searching for the meaning of the words"by their pronunciation. We will therefore classify the terms into four groups:"transformed words and phrases","Tong","equal"and"similar pronunciation and of the same meaning"to study. After summarizing and refining the terms of showing ehetoric words in GuangYaShuZheng, we find that although using some terms of traditional linguistics and the related language materials to explain the meaning of the words, Wang Nian-sun was not conscious to study ancient Chinese rhetoric systematically. He collected text and explaned the meaning of the phrase by using rhetorical approach. However, before rhetoric becoming a separate subject in that period, it was development to the method of exegesis.On the basis of inheriting a tradition, GuangYaShuZheng had development and innovation. It built a relatively complete system of the terms. But it also kept some inadequacies, such as"definition is too wide","significance of cross","vaguely defined"and"arbitrary definition". We find it is extremely necessary to standardize textual exegesis terms. Based on the experience GuangYaShuZheng offerd, this thesis presents a preliminary ideas on the issue of standardizing the termis of exegesis and innovation of the terms of exegesis.