A Study Of Parallelism In Mozi

Parallelism has various forms and ample contents in Mozi.This article will analysis the uses of parallelism in Mozi and summarizes its characteristics.The first part is introduction,which introduce the research topic of this article and research status of Mozi.Then clear the definition standard of parallelism.Beside the"Summary" and "introduction",this article is composed of three chapters.Chapter one:The forms of parallelism in Mozi.According to the research of scholars,there are three forms of parallelism in Mozi:phrase,sentence and paragraph.As the function of the phrase,there are four forms of parallelism.As the characteristics of verb in the sentence,there are three forms of parallelism.According to the logical relationship of principle clause and subordination clause,there are four forms of parallelism.Chapter two:Analysis the characteristics of parallelism in Mozi.The parallelism is widely used in Mozi,with the integrated use of other figures of speech,including climax,repetition,rhetoric question,anadiplosis,contrast and so on.The parallelism in Mozi has three characteristics.The parallelism in Mozi attach great import to the logic of language,the continuity of language and the salience of language.Talking about how these figures of speech show the characteristics of parallelism in Mozi.Chapter three:Compare the characteristics of parallelism in Mozi and Mencius.This chapter consist of two parts.Firstly,analysis the characteristics of parallelism in Mencius.Secondly,compare the similarity and difference of the both.Their parallel language is easy to understand.Parallelism in combination with metaphor make language more interesting and vivde.There is two different in parallelism.Linguistic features of parallelism is manifoldness in Mozi but conciseness in Mencius.Linguistic features of parallelism is coldly objective in Mozi but passionatie in Mencius.