Deducing the Intonation of Chinese Characters in Suzhou-Zhongzhou Dialect by Its Singing Technique in Kunqu:A New Probe into Ancient Chinese Phonology

作     者：Ling Zhu 

作者机构：the Center of Intercultural StudiesSoochow UniversityChina 

出 版 物：《Language and Semiotic Studies》 (语言与符号学研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第6卷第2期

页      面：65-80页

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 13[艺术学] 1302[艺术学-音乐与舞蹈学] 050103[文学-汉语言文字学] 05[文学] 0503[文学-新闻传播学] 0603[历史学-世界史] 

基　　金：sponsored by the Major Project of the National Social Science Fund The History of Chinese Xiqu in the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China(Jiangsu Province Volume)(Grant Number:19ZD05) the Social Science Youth Fund of Jiangsu Province Translation Studies of Kunqu under the Strategy of Chinese Culture Going Out(Grant Number:16YSC004) 

主　　题：Kunqu singing technique Chinese phonology heritage value interdisciplinary research 

摘      要：Kunqu is a comprehensive art which is considered to be an epitome of the achievements of Chinese *** was unanimously selected by UNESCO from the first round of entrants for the category ofOral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity,with emphasis on its heritage value as embodied in language,literature,music,singing technique,dance,performance,set design,makeup,and more,and has been given the status of living fossil by artists both in China and *** on the relationship between the intonation of Chinese characters and singing techniques,especially the criterion in Kunqu that thesinging technique follows the intonation of a Chinese character,we attempt to deduce the intonation of Chinese characters in the Suzhou-Zhongzhou dialect based on its singing ***,we deduce the archaic intonations of Chinese characters by the exclusive singing techniques in Kunqu for the purpose of exploring a new approach to Chinese phonology of the Ming and Qing dynasties from an interdisciplinary perspective of artistic criterion and linguistics.