| dc.description.abstract | Yang, Shu-da (1885-1956), born at Chan Sa, the Hu Nan province, is an important linguist and character-expert of Han language in previous century. His mighty achievement of his research is reflected in his numerous and various works, including classics-translating, rhetoric researching, scholiastic researching, oracle-character researching, and character of bronze-inscription researching. Among all fields of his researching, Yang, Shu-da agrees that the most vital success part is his character researching. Unfortunately, there aren’t any probing and in-depth essays and monographs in respect of this part. Therefore, this article will focus on the issue as the title presents: A Tentative Probe into Yang, Shu-da’s theories of characters, Writing physique and semantics.
The content of this thesis will be divided into six chapters: the first chapter, the exordium, will explain why I choose this topic to discuss, and survey the other scholars’ criticism about Yang’s works. The second chapter will focus on the background of Yang’s biography and his researching. Chapter Three will stress on Yang’s opinions about the Han characters. In Chapter Four, we will discuss the effort of Yang’s theory about the six categories of Chinese characters, that is the researching about the pictograph. In Chapter Five, the achievement of Yang’s Scholiastic researching will be discussed. Because the Yang’s Scholiastic researching is based on the etymology; the Yang’s theory of etymology will be highlighted as well. Finally, Chapter Six will be the conclusion, summarizing the groundbreaking contribution of Yang’s effort. | en_US |