声音与情感——中古汉语诗歌及其英译本的语音象征对比研究-sound and emotion a contrastive study of phonetic symbols in ancient chinese poetry and its english versions.docxVIP

companionship,andfriendshipforsomanyyears.Friendscomeandgo,butwearestilltogetherandwillbetogetherforever.AnotherimportantfigurethatIhavetothankismyfatherwhohassupportedmesomanyyears—fromaninfantinswaddletonow.Ihavebeenaskinghimtostopworkingsohardandletmesupportthefamilyaftergraduation,buthealwayssayshe‘sstillokwithworkandurgesmetodoaPhDassoonaspossible.Thankyou,dad,fortheunconditionalandunceasingloveinmyentirelife.ManyotherfriendsalsohelpmewiththetranscriptionofMiddleChinese.TheyareCaoZhi,LiWei,ZhangLijian,LiJiansai,WeiHongru,WangRuiwei,andHouKaijian.ThanksforthehelpwhenIwasconfrontedwithsomethingunachievableandwantedtogiveup.Iknowyouwereasbusyasmewithyourownstudyorwork.Thanksalsogotomanyotherprofessorsandfriendsinthephonologycircle,whohelpedproofreadthisthesisandofferedmanyconstructiveideasandsuggestions.ii摘要对于音义关系的研究可以追溯到柏拉图的《克拉底鲁篇》，从那之后的两千多年当中，与之相关的研究从来没有中断过。在这些研究中，大部分研究关注的是语音—物体大小的象似性和拟声词等问题。与这些研究不同的是，本文将诗歌选为研究对象，旨在研究语音选择与诗歌情感表达之间的相关关系。在本研究中，我们选取了100多首唐诗，并将它们分为五组：对照组、离别诗、边塞诗、闺怨诗和欢快诗。我们将这五组诗歌及其英译本分别进行标音，其中中文标音参照的是邵荣芬所拟构的中古汉语音系系统。接着我们统计了每组诗歌当中各个音位出现的频率并分析了频率变化与诗歌情感表达之间的相关关系，即某些音位/语音类别是否能有助于或者阻碍特定诗歌情感的表达。在分别对中古汉语和英语进行研究之后，本文发现：某些特定的音位在不同情感的诗歌类别当中具有显著地差异。接着本文对两种语言当中的语音象征进行了对比，寻找其中跨语言的共性。结果显示，虽然语音象征在两种语言当中都存在——某些语音确实有助于或会阻碍特定诗歌情感的表达，但是对于语音象征的跨语言相似性，到目前为止并未发现有利的证据来证明其存在。关键词：唐诗；中古汉语音系；英语；语音象征；音义学iiiAbstractThequestforthecorrelationbetweensoundandmeaning,whichdatesbacktoCratylus,hascontinuedunswervinglyfortwothousandyears.Amongthesestudies,thelargemajorityaredevotedtosound-sizesymbolism,onomatopoeia,etc.Thispaper,however,takespoetryasitsstudysubjectanddelvesintothecorrelationbetweenphoneticchoiceandpoeticemotion.Inthisresearch,over100Tangpoems(MiddleChinesepoems)areselectedandthendividedinto5groups,whicharelabeledasReferenceGroup,farewellpoems,frontierpoems,boudoirpoems,andpoemsofhappymoods.WetranscribethesepoemsaswellastheirEnglishtranslationsbyWitterBynnerwithareferencetoEarlyMiddleChinesephonologyandModernEnglishphonology.Afterthat,wecalculatethefrequencyofeachphonem