The Interrelationship and Development of Deixis in Classical Chinese: A Case Study of Pronouns in Shishuo xinyu

• 영문명: The Interrelationship and Development of Deixis in Classical Chinese: A Case Study of Pronouns in Shishuo xinyu
• 발행기관: 고려대학교 한자한문연구소
• 저자명: 신정수(Jeongsoo Shin)
• 간행물 정보: 『동아한학연구』제13호, 175~191쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.08.30

국문 초록

The evolution of deictic words occurs in every language. The development from spatial to person and temporal deixis is a more common trajectory than the opposite, but both progressions are apparent when the deictic words zhi and er are examined in the Shishuo xinyu. In the text, zhi is used mainly as third person or anaphoric pronoun. Historically, it was the first lexical item used to avoid naming a frequently-mentioned place or object and it gradually developed into a third person pronoun consistently referring to specified individuals. Another deictic word, er, developed in the opposite direction, from person deixis to place deixis. Since the second person er is usually an addressee, who is distant from the viewpoint of the addresser, the distal meaning was derived first and proximal usage arose later. In the text, er is used mainly as a second person, distal, or anaphoric pronoun. My investigation into zhi and er demonstrates that all the deictic functions are historically interrelated, and that later usages still reflect earlier usages to some degree.

목차

1. Introduction: Deixis in Historical Grammar

2. Zhi 之: the Development from Spatial Deixis to the Third Person Pronoun

3. Er 爾: the Development from the Second Person Pronoun to Spatial deixis

4. Concluding Remarks

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키워드

Shishuo xinyu pronoun deixis demonstrative anaphoric zhi 之 er 爾