Influence of Linguistic Ideology on the Concept of Codification of the First Ancient Chinese Dictionaries

Authors

  • Iryna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/transfer.2023.18.40508

Keywords:

Linguistic Ideology, Chinese Codification, Chinese Dictionaries, Chinese Language

Abstract

Abstract: 

One of the important directions of research in modern linguistics is the analysis of the processes of language standardization, as well as linguistic and extralinguistic factors on which the direction of the vector of these processes depends. Based on the model of linguistic planning proposed by Einar Haugen, the codification process is defined as the second step, which is preceded by the process of language material selection. However, the success of implementation of the codified phenomena depends on the form of their implementation, as well as on the processes of selection of the language material. It is the processes of selection and the form of introduction of codification that remain insufficiently covered in the studies of Ancient China language planning processes. Most research works in this area are not devoted to the analysis of the criteria for selecting the form and the concept of codification, but to the origin of ancient Chinese dictionaries and their means of decoding. Thus, the first carriers of the codification of Ancient China are the dictionaries “Erya”, “Fangyan”, “Shiming”, “Shuowen”. Taking these dictionaries as examples, we can see that the forms of codification have a great variability.

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Published

2023-02-08