Studies in the Language of the Shih Ching: I, The Final Particle Yi
| Autor: | Paul L-M Serruys |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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| Zdroj: | Early China. 16:81-168 |
| ISSN: | 2325-2324 0362-5028 |
| Popis: | This study of yi in the Shijing tries mostly and firstly, even at the expense of smooth translation and poetic diction, to give a consistent linguistic-philological solution to the usages of this particle. Starting with a short survey of opinions proposed by Chinese, Japanese and Western scholars on yz's specific function, the author eliminates such proposals as: exclamatory final, marker of time (point of time, perfect, future), various meanings equal or quasi-identical with other particles in classical or modern Chinese, and proposes in turn a basically imperalive sense. Depending on context, its role shifts to “marker” of predictive or assertive sense, and of subordinate concessive or conditional clauses; and has special usages, as in interrogative and rhetorical phrases. Comparisons of previous translations (those of Karlgren and Waley, both of whom try to stay free from traditional readings based; Couvreur, who is faithful to the letter of Zhu Xi's commentary; Legge, who eclectically uses various Chinese commentaries; and Kobayashi and Takata, as earlier and modern Japanese views) have led the author to offer new explanations on concrete topics of the odes, but mostly new translations of certain words and new readings for certain graphs, which are argued in some detail. |
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