"The Analects" Thought Of Linguistics

The analects of Confucius as records Confucius’ words and deeds of the works, provids important materials for the study of Confucianism and Confucius thought, literature, politics, education, philosophy and so on, these all have reflected in The analects of Confucius,including the rich view of language. Although the research on the concept of language in The analects of Confucius is not so rich tnan other aspects, language view also is an integral part of the thoughts of Confucius, and the reflection is more and more important.The analects of Confucius’ concept of the language involves the social linguistics, pragmatics,rhetoric,speech communication,"Yayan"was first proposed,"Zhengming" point of view had an effect on "Mingshi" theory of other peoples, include "Shenyan","Zhongyan","Wenzhi"and so on, these all prove that Confucius is also has a wealth of language view. This article specifically discusses The analects of Confucius’concept of the language.The next part of the article is "Zhengming". It as the Confucius thoughts, which cannot be ignored, it also reflect the Confucian concept of verbal communication. Other people in later time are all Inherit and develop his view in different level. Confucius’s "Zhengming" view also reflects verbal communication. It points to the political ethics, from the aspects of linguistics is the communicator of language behavior to conform to their own status, role and relationship in verbal communication.Confucius rhetoric view. In Confucius, language behavior is one of the perpetrators and their own language. Their own moral accomplishment is the foundation of good words and deeds, so rhetoric must honest is the fundamental requirement of Confucius rhetoric view. Under the general requirements,"Cida","Ciqiao" and "Wenzhi". There are must be based on honesty.Besides, rich rhetorical devices are also an important part of rhetoric view in The analects of Confucius. First is on the negative rhetoric, either from the content and form of language, the master can do is concise and accurate, clear and natural. In terms of positive rhetoric, the pursuit of appearance, voice, etc. Boring, also the pursuit of rich appreciations. On speech, the most common type of metaphor, parallelism, rhetorical question from us until now has been seldom used or have no limit, transfer and so on, in Confucius’ there would be a part of language skills. More can reflect Confucius rhetoric view is his richness of the comprehensive use of rhetoric means. In the analects of Confucius, a simple sentence can contain three or more of the figures of speech.By the using of rhetoric, the meaning of the language accurately, clearly and deeply would be come true.The last part is the Confucius view of language communication. In the analects of Confucius in the language and behavior are all clear or vague reflects the understanding of the verbal communication. He think for different people have different language behavior and location, communication ways also should be changed. Communication object changes, the communication condition of the object’s identity, status, ideas change, can cause changes in the verbal communication.Context is an aspect of impact on verbal communication. Influence of context in verbal communication have limittion and auxiliary function. Respectively in the analects of Confucius embodies in two aspects of communicative context and social context. At the same time, Communication subject have the effect on the verbal communication also is an aspect. This includes the communication subject itself and role two factors in communication.In The analects of Confucius "Yanzhong","Yanshen" is also one aspect of Confucius view on language communication, namely to real and careful communication with people. These two points are now often referred in commen with "cooperative principle". From this point can reflect Confucius’ language view of the advance.When discuss the Confucius’ related linguistics point, large number of the original text of the analects of Confucius also be referred. It makes theory combined closely with the original text, enrichs the theory of persuasive, and explains the richness of language view in the analects of Confucius.