日本明治启蒙思想家西周的语言文字观考查论述.pdfVIP

SO UTH EA ST A SIAN ST UD IES 2010 1 日本明治启蒙思想家西周的 语言文字观考述 * (广东外语外贸大学东方语言文化学院 广州 510420) [] 明治时期; 文字 革; 西周; 罗马字国字化; 翻译成就 [ ] 明治时期是日本历史进程中的一个重要时期。此时的日本知识分子醉心于学习先进的西洋文明, 因而形成 新的外来思想和旧的传统思想的对立。在新旧文化的激烈碰撞中, 曾深受中国儒家文化影响的日本传统文化转变成为一种 既混杂中西两种文化因素又保留有本国传统的独特文化形态。为适应西方新的科学技术和文化思想的引进, 日本自古使用 的文字也随之变化, 日本大批启蒙思想家纷纷对日本文字提出 革意见。西周也在众多的著作中也提出了 革日本文字的 主张, 体现出其顺应时代潮流、勇于 革创新的鲜明的语言观。 [] H 36 [] A [] 1008- 6099 ( 2010) 01- 0091- 04 AnOverview on theLanguage and CharacterView of the JapaneseEnlightenment ThinkerNishi2Amane in theMeijiTimes L iu X iaoshan Xu Zhen ( he Faculty of Asian Languges and Cultures, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, China) eywords: Meiji mi es; CharacterReform; N ishi2Am ane; N ationalization of the Roman alphabet; Achievements on ranslation Abstract: heMeiji mi es is an mi portant period in Japanese historywhen the Japanese intellectualswere engaged in studying the advanced western civilization and form ing the conflict bewt een the new foreign thoughts and the tra2 ditional thoughts. In the conflict between the new and old cultures, the Japanese traditional culture, which was greatly affected by the Chinese Confucianism, had been changed into a distinct culture type that integrated the east2 ern andwestern cultural factors and reserved the traditions of its own country. In such a complicated period, the Japanese characters that had been used since ancient tmi es also changed in order to be adapted to the introduction ofwestern new technologies and culture. A lot of enlightenment thinker