汉字两书论

将传统“六书”的构造方式进一步概括为“表意”和“假借”两种功能性手段。根据符号学的观点,文字的表达语言方式主要有两种:一是动机性方式,如表意的汉字,其形体含有对汉语单位的解释理据;二是拼音文字,其形体和语言单位之间是任意结合的关系。而就动机性汉字系统内部而言,又包含了这两种表达方式:“表意”代表动机性方式,“假借”代表任意性方式。这就是我们所说的汉字的“两书”。两书论是对传统汉字“六书”理论的进一步概括,其主要目的是要解释汉字深层结构中的二元表达机制及其普遍的符号学价值,以实现汉字符号学与世界符号学的通约和平等交流。

On the Two Categories of Chinese Characters

This paper generalized the six categories of Chinese characters into two functional methods: phonetic loan and ideography.The former stands for the motive-based method while the latter for the arbitrary method.This is the so-called "two categories of characters".This two-category system is the further generalization of the ancient "six-category" system and its purpose is to explain the dual expressive mechanism underlying the deep structure of Chinese characters and its universal semiotic value for the commensuration and exchange with the world semiotics at an equal footing.