Chinese Euphonics

Phonological Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-066310-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

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What did Old Chinese prose sound like? Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, is a deep dive into the types of sound patterns that occur throughout the earliest corpora of narrative texts in the Chinese canon: the Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, the «??»and the to the «????».

Tharsen demonstrates how sound patterns in the speeches preserved in these foundational texts functioned in concert with form and meaning to create "phonorhetoric," a tactic employed by some of the most eminent figures from Chinese antiquity to beautify and strengthen their arguments and ideas by making use of extensive phonological patterning and the power of sound.

Containing both a broad history of the study of prose rhyming and a wealth of new evidence, lays the groundwork for a new and more comprehensive approach to the study of early Chinese texts.

Zielgruppe

Sinologen/-innen, Sprachwissenschaftler/-innen (Chinesisch, Ostas / Academics (Sinology, East Asian Studies, East Asian Linguistics)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tharsen, Jeffrey R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey R. Tharsen, University of Chicago, USA.