A Comparative Study Of The Methods Of Interpretation Of "Virtual Words" And "Interpretations Of Interpretations"

Qing Dynasty is the area that the researching of the function words had a brilliant achievement. There were some monographs that had a profound influence like XuZiShuo of Yuan Renlin,ZhuZiBianLve of Liu Qi,JingZhuanShiCi of Wang Yinzhi and so on.The XuZiShuo is the first monograph that was named formally by function word.The JingZhuanShiCi represented the supreme achivement of function word researching.They have different emphasis and belong to different school. The former belongs to the art of poetry and prose,and the latter belongs to critical interpretation of ancient texts.So when explain function words,the explaining ways they use both have the same methods and different methods.The XuZiShuo mainly uses analogy analisis,contest,reference old explaination,combination of function words and notional words etc.The most important is that it combines theory of verve and tones and rhetorical device to explain function words.It pays attention to application and effect of language and reveals strong literary flavor JingZhuanShiCi mainly uses methods of reference old explaination,parallelism of induction,contest, combination of function words and notional words,searching meaning by sound etc.The purpose is to dredge meaning.The methods of searching meaning by sound is praised by descendant,so it has outstanding status in Chinese history of linguistics.