Chinese Euphonics Phonological Patterns Phonorhetoric And Literary Artistry In Early Chinese Narrative Texts Welten Ostasiens Worlds Of East Asia Mondes De Lextrme Orient 29 1st Edition Jeffrey R Tharsen by Jeffrey R. Tharsen 9783110663105, 3110663104 instant download after payment.

As written Chinese has always utilized a logographic rather than a phonetic script, the rapid pace of phonetic variation and change has resulted in many of the euphonic patterns in ancient texts becoming completely obscured, to the point that most ancient Chinese rhyming poetry no longer rhymes and the subtle phonological patterns in our most hallowed works of ritual and history have been lost for millennia.1 While very general categories of rhyme and correlations between characters based on ancient rhyming poetry have been proposed by Chinese scholars throughout the ages, the application of historical linguistics to pre-modern Chinese over the past century has enabled linguists to begin to more precisely estimate the sounds of this ancient language. Coupled with recent advances in computer database technology, digital texts and digital tools, scholars can now efficiently employ a wide variety of phonological data for ancient Chinese (from ancient dictionaries to modern systems for reconstructed pronunciations) to provide empirical documentation and analysis of the lost euphony and phonorhetorical features of these ancient works.