Studies On Rhetoric Of The Prairie Songs

The folk song "ChiLeChuan", which is collected in the Yue Fu written by Guomao qian in Song dynasty,can be viewed as the earliest written records of a prairie song, the prairie sogn of "tian cang cang, ye mang mang " had been widely spread since the ancient times, not only because of its melodious tunes, but because its wonderful lyrics. As an important part of the song, on one hand, lyrics has the duty to express meaning, on the other hand,it will be controlled by the melody of the song, so in the creative process of lyrics a lot of rhetoric will be used. This paper analyzes the lyrics’rhetoric of the prairie song through three parties:voice vocabulary grammar rhetorical interpretation, text rhetoric and speech rhetoric in interpretation, at the same time, analyzes the cultural factors behind the rhetoric. The structure of this paper is as follows:The first part is the introduction, including the article selected topic basis, research objectives, research significance, the determination of the research object, and briefly introduce the source of corpus and the research methods.The second part analyzes the rhetoric in three aspects:voice vocabulary and grammar. The phonetic rhetoric interpretation is divided into four parts, respectively is tonal collocation, harmonious rhyme, the use of dieyin and chenzi. Vocabulary rhetoric interpretation includes the use of minority language vocabulary, the alternate use of the time word and the space word, the use of color words, the use of fuzzy words, the use of synonyms and antonyms. Grammar rhetorical interpretation respectively from the routine and variable type sentences, the use of long sentences and short sentences, the use of the positive and negative sentences as well as the use of the whole sentences and loose sentences.The third part analyzes the discourse rhetoric of prairie songs, mainly divides into two aspects:narrative style and narrative level, narrative style includes the objective description and subjective emotion, the narrative levels includes the smooth type and the change type.The fourth part is the prairie song interpretation of rhetoric speech corpus, respectively such as metaphor, personification, hyperbole, parallelism and relapse and so on.The fifth part analyzes the cultural factors of rhetoric in prairie songs, such as the geographical environment, national psychological characteristics, the prairie culture and history point of view.The sixth party is divided into conclusion.