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论汉语语形的美学功能

On the Aesthetic Function of Chinese Graphemics

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【作者】 金健人

【Author】 Jin Jianren;Northeast Asian Research Center,Zhejiang Yuexiu Foreign Languages College;Department of Chinese,Zhejiang University;

【机构】 浙江越秀外国语学院东北亚研究中心浙江大学中国语言文学系

【摘要】 语形指包括文字、排列、版式、图形、颜色等在内的页面加诸视觉的全部因素。汉文学因为汉语语形的影响,必然迥异于其他语言文学。汉字的象形性使汉文学具有与众不同特性的传统观念是错误的,汉字不同于拼音文字的辨识规则所建构的会意和形声文字体系,历史地形成了汉民族内部意识、外部世界与汉字结构的对位关系,以至于汉语语形在字内、行间、页面、体式等不同层次具有作用于汉文学的独特美学功能。美学文本与实用文本的交叠区域实乃隐性文本,隐性文本可以转化为美学文本,但实用文本就只能是实用文本。

【Abstract】 Graphemics is the study and analysis of a writing system in terms of graphemes.In this paper it refers to all parts of a page,including the whole text,characters,arrangement,spacing,margin,layout,graphics,color,and so on.In general written language,the written(printed)form of the text is often unnoticed,but in literary language,it sometimes can play a subtle role in giving rise to a unique aesthetic effect.Moreover,Chinese characters are ideograms,which are completely different from Western scripts.For the above reasons,the aesthetic function of Chinese characters deserves further exploration.The charm of Chinese characters is generally considered to come from their pictographic nature.Ezra Pound,who first publicized and put to use the aesthetic function of Chinese characters,held this view.Ernest Fenollosa believed that Chinese characters are composed of pictographic patterns and that the structure of the Chinese characters would enrich the meaning of an entire poem.Yet the view that most scholars adhere to,attributing the poetic expression of Chinese characters to the pictographic nature of Chinese characters,is actually wrong.There are only around 300 high-frequency single characters in Chinese that are a visual combination of character and meaning.The parts of the characters very regularly construct pictophonetic characters and associative compound characters. With the repetition and change of visual markers,the user’s experiences,sensations,feelings,emotions,and thoughts are accumulated in his mind.More than 95 percent of Chinese pictophonetic characters and associative compound characters visually combine the meanings of single component characters that constantly accumulate in the readers’memories and experiences through frequent repetition.The memories and experiences of the 300 visual markers(the single characters)and their combined associations(the global system)stand in stark contrast to the view that phonetic words are understood through auditory impressions.The biggest difference between Chinese and Western languages is that Chinese lacks grammatical morphology.For this reason,the words in a Chinese sentence can be disassembled and rearranged very freely.The extreme freedom of image juxtaposition that is free from logical constraints is in itself the most important means of poetic expression in Chinese.Based on the relationship between what is internal and what is external to the text,the graphemic function can be divided into four types:intra-word,inter-line,within-page,and character-form.Split of character,character homophony,acrostic,palindrome,adhesion,anadiplosis,etc.,all use the graphemic structure of characters or the collocation relationship between characters to create artistic effects.When Jonathan Kahler answered the question″What is literature″,he suggested that any sentence can be either a practical text or a literary text,but he did not make it clear how apractical text can become a literary text.The secret is that the practical text and the literary text have overlapping aspects.What does not overlap is that a literary text uses a special language structure with a single signifier corresponding to multiple references,thus proving itself a literary text,while a practical text uses a single signifier corresponding to a single meaning to achieve its practical functions.The implicit text in the overlapping part must rely on a certain context or pre-set conditions(for example,graphemes),so that people can use it as a literary text and experience its unique artistic charm.

  • 【文献出处】 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版) ,Journal of Zhejiang University(Humanities and Social Sciences) , 编辑部邮箱 ,2020年02期
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